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Modern and Contemporary Art ~ Sculpture info print send
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Object Details
Medium: Mixed media and paint on plywood 
Dimensions: Object: 156.528 x 121.285 x 26.67 cm (61 5/8 x 47 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.) 
Geog. Data:  
Period: 20th century 
Culture German 
Merzbild mit Regenbogen
1920–39
Artist: Kurt Schwitters, German, 1887 - 1948
Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
2006.52.4
This object is on view at the gallery.
Bibliography
William Rubin, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968), ill.
"Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 240.
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2007), 255, 402, pl. 242.
Cathleen Chaffee, Eye on a Century: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 2012), 46–49, 175, no. 13.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery's complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.