Little Dance

Creator Name

Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948)

Cultural Context

Germany, 20th century

Date

Creation: 1920

Source

Cleveland Museum of Art

About the Work

Cleveland Museum of Art Object Description

With collages of densely interwoven scraps of paper gleaned from daily life, Schwitters produced dynamic compositions in which the interaction of the materials becomes a kind of dance. Notice here the way the color red "dances" among the subdued tones of white, gray, and ochre.

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Title

Little Dance

Creator

Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948), artist

Worktype

Drawing

Cultural Context

Germany, 20th century

Material

collage; paper?, laid down on cardboard

Dimensions

Sheet: 13.1 x 10.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Mounted: 23 x 17 cm (9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)

Technique

Language

Date

Creation: 1920

Provenance

[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York]; Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art

Style Period

Rights

CC0

Inscription

SECONDARY SUPPORT, signed, lower right, in graphite: Kurt Schwitters 1920 ; by artist, lower left, in graphite: Mz. 65. / Kleiner Tanz. ; lower left, in graphite: 1967 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, by artist, in top half: Kurt Schwitters / Hannover / [Waldmansustr?] 5II [II in superscript] ; upper left, in graphite: VI [underlined] 3 ; across center, in graphite: H__34201/VdMERZ/ ; upper right, in graphite: [paritally erased, illegible] ; lower right, in graphite: [partially erased, illegible] / [partially erased, illegible] ; lower right, in graphite: OUTSIDE O[N] / BACK / Janis

Location

Source

Cleveland Museum of Art

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