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Prints and Drawings
Artist: Kurt Schwitters, German, 1887–1948
poco poco (Very Little)
1947
Collage of cut cardboards, fabrics, papers, stamps, and newsprint
image: 19.2 × 15.2 cm (7 9/16 × 6 in.)
sheet: 31.4 × 25.4 cm (12 3/8 × 10 in.)
sheet: 31.4 × 25.4 cm (12 3/8 × 10 in.)
Gift of Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935
1991.10.1
Geography:
Made in Germany
Status:
Culture:
German
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Works on Paper - Collages
Provenance:
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to 1954; Richard Brown Baker, to 1991; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
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.
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