Relief with Red Segment Artist: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948)

1927

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil and wood on plywood

Dimensions

29 1/2 × 24 5/8 × 1 15/16 in. (75 × 62.5 × 5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.678

Culture

German

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Bibliography
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 117, fig. 27
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 607, no. 630, ill
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 90
Object copyright
© Kurt Schwitters / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Signed

Handwritten label on back: "Grosse Marzausstellung Kurt Schwitters Nr. 152 relief mit roten Segment (1927)"; printed label "Deutsche Kunst 1774 Dusseldorf 1928"

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