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Untitled (Vase of Flowers)

Kurt Schwitters

Art Funded
2014
Dimensions
31.5 x 25 cm
Vendor
Mr & Mrs David Burns
This impastoed still life shows a vase of flowers on a tabletop.

The reverse of the painting features a collage of newspaper clippings on topics ranging from nationalisation to hula dancing.

Provenance

Mr and Mrs Jenkinson; gifted to Harry Bickerstaff, thence by descent.

Oil on cardboard

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Armitt Museum and Library

Rydal Road, Ambleside, Cumbria, LA22 9BL
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Art we’ve helped buy at Armitt Museum and Library

Wood on Wood
 Acquired 2003
Untitled (Vase of Flowers)
 Acquired 2014
Untitled (Silver Howe, Grasmere)
 Acquired 2016
Two studies of bats
 Acquired 1992
The Old Mill, Ambleside
 Acquired 2014
Sketch of an unknown bearded man
 Acquired 2002
Pair of studies of newts, fish and stickleback
 Acquired 1994
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