Merz 1003 (Peacock's Tail) | Yale University Art Gallery

1924

Not on view

Medium: Oil and wood on composition board
Dimensions: 28 5/8 × 27 13/16 in. (72.7 × 70.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
Accession Number: 1941.680
Culture: German
Period: 20th century
Classification: Paintings
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Bibliography

"Discoveries from a Class on the Technical Study of Art," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 91–92, fig. 9–10

Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 92, fig. 20

Leah Dickerman et al., Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005),

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), 604, no. 628, ill

Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 89-90, ill

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Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

shapes

Inscribed l.r. "Merz 1003"

Signed l.r. "Kurt Schwitters 24"

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