Live Auction 2595Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Lot 202

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

It's Terrific!

Closed8 November 2012

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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
It's Terrific!
signed with initials and dated 'KS 44' (center left)
printed paper collage on leather-bound book cover
12 3/8 x 21 1/8 in. (31.5 x 53.9 cm.)
Executed in 1944

The London Gallery (1950).
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, December 1953.

Specialist note

Dr. Karin Orchard and Dr. Isabel Schulz, editors of the Kurt Schwitters catalogue raisonné, have confirmed that this work is authentic and that it corresponds to no. 3091 currently listed in volume III of the catalogue raisonné.