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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

Ohne Titel (Porträt Harald Landry)

Closed26 June 2015

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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Ohne Titel (Porträt Harald Landry)
signed with the initials and dated 'KS40' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 x 17 7/8 in. (53.5 x 45.3 cm.)
Painted in 1940

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker, by descent from the artist.
Anonymous sale, Phillips, London, October 1986, lot 45.
Galerie Kurt Kalb, Vienna.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990.

Specialist note

Harald Landry (1898-1979) was an arts page editor in Berlin and interned with Kurt Schwitters in Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man during World War II.