Plaster sculpture and bones (?), painted, mounted onto thin wooden board. 78 x 20 x 15 cm. Monogrammed and dated KS 43 with red paint on rear left side of cast-with base. - With printed paper label of the "Kunsthalle Basel, Nr. 003559" underneath the wooden board.
Orchard/Schulz 3050
Catalogue Raisonné
Orchard/Schulz 3050
Provenance
The London Gallery, London (1947-1951, in commission); E.L.T. Mesens, London (1951-1971); private possession, Brussels (1971-1973); Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1973); Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (1978); Gustav Stein, Lohmar-Honrath (until 1979); private possession, Germany (1979, inheritance); Galerie Sander, Darmstadt (until 1988); private possession, Hessen (since 1988)
Literature
Andreas Franzke, Skulpturen und Objekte von Malern des 20. Jahrhunderts, Cologne 1982, ill. 124; John Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters, London 1985, p. 219 with ill. 314. resp. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 240, ill. 308 (here "Exhausted Dancer"); Marc Dachy, The 27 senses of Kurt Schwitters or How to become an impredictible violet (and flower in the dark), in: L'Ecrit et l'art II [Symposium Juni 1993], ed. by Benjamin Buchloh, Nouveau Musée/Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne (Rhône) 1997, p. 119-156, ill. p. 143
Exhibitions
London 1944 (The Modern Art Gallery), Paintings and Sculptures by Kurt Schwitters, cat. nr. 10 c "Dance" (probably identical); London 1947 (The London Gallery), deposit; London 1950 (The London Gallery), An Hommage to Kurt Schwitters and Sculpture by Rolanda Polonsky and Recent Work by the English Painter Stella Snead, cat. nr. 33; Knokke-le-Zoute-Albert Plage 1951 (Grande Salle des Exposition de "La Reserve"), 75 Oeuvres du demi-siècle, cat. nr. 60; Brussels/Rotterdam/Berlin/Milan/Basel/Paris 1971/1972 (Palais des Beaux-Arts/Mus. Boymans van Beuningen/Neue Nationalgalerie/Palazzo Reale/Kunsthalle Basel/Musée des Arts Décoratifs), Metamorphose des Dinges. Kunst und Antikunst 1910-1970, cat. nr. 217 resp. cat. nr. 138; Cologne 1978 (Galerie Gmurzynska), Kurt Schwitters, cat. nr. 83, p. 155 with ill.; New York/London/Hanover 1985/1986 (The Museum of Modern Art/Tate Gallery/Sprengel Museum), Kurt Schwitters, ill. p. 314, resp. ill. p. 232; Høvikodden/Norway 2009/2010 (Henie Onstad Art Centre), Schwitters in Norway, cat. nr. 77 with full-page colour ill.