For the Modern

Provenance

G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh [undated label on the back of the collage]. Charlotte Weidler, by 1960. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York [a fax of Apr. 26, 1995, from Jeanne Havemeyer of B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago]; sold to Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Inc., Chicago; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

For the Modern

Kurt Schwitters

1947

Accession Number

119177

Medium

Collage composed of cut, torn, and painted paper elements, on wood-pulp board, laid down on tan wove paper

Dimensions

22.6 × 18.1 cm (8 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Classification

collage

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection