poco poco (Very Little) | Yale University Art Gallery

1947

Medium: Collage of cut cardboards, fabrics, papers, stamps, and newsprint
Dimensions: image: 7 9/16 × 6 in. (19.2 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 12 3/8 × 10 in. (31.4 × 25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935
Accession Number: 1991.10.1
Geography: Made in Germany
Culture: German
Period: 20th century
Classification: Collages
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Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to 1954; Richard Brown Baker, to 1991; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Frauke V. Josenhans et al., Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017),

Jennifer Farrell et al., Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 170–71, fig. 1

Sasha M. Newman, ed., Collecting with Richard Brown Baker, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995), 45, ill

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), collages, popular prints

advertisements graphic design newspapers newsprint text typefaces words

No watermark

Below collage, on back support in graphite, LL: "Kurt Schwitters 1947 / poco poco"; in black ink UL corner: "K S / 47".

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