An abstract oil painting of a tilted checkered brown plane

A large tilted plane in warm grey-brown runs from the upper left down to the lower right, its upper half broken into a soft patchwork of sage, cream and ochre squares. A band of red-orange lies along its left edge, meeting a dark charcoal-navy wedge in the top corner. Beneath the plane a dark maroon crescent curves over pale yellow and white, and a dusky-rose oval rests on the muted mauve ground at lower left. The paint is thin and dragged, the brush marks left showing.

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) was a German artist who built an entire practice from what other people threw away. From 1919 he gave the name Merz to his collages and assemblages, composing tram tickets, wrappers, printed scraps and worn paper into taut abstract structures, and extending the idea into poetry, typography and the architectural Merzbau in his Hanover house. Close to Dada without ever formally joining it, he was condemned as degenerate by the Nazi regime and fled in 1937 to Norway and then to Britain, where he died in Kendal. His work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, Tate and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.

Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.