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Modern and Contemporary Art
Artist: Kurt Schwitters, German, 1887–1948
Merz 1003 (Peacock’s Tail)
1924
Oil and wood on composition board
72.7 × 70.6 cm (28 5/8 × 27 13/16 in.)
Gift of Collection Société Anonyme
1941.680
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
German
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Paintings
Bibliography:
Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 89-90, ill.
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.
Leah Dickerman et al., Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005).
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.
“Discoveries from a Class on the Technical Study of Art,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019): 92, fig. 9–10.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
