A loose crayon drawing in blue, yellow and turquoise

A loose drawing in coloured crayon, chalk and paint on cream paper. Fans of green and turquoise strokes sweep outward across the upper half, worked over with blue brushmarks and a small pale blue patch near the top. At the centre a rounded cream form is crossed by blue strokes and rows of short dark dashes, with a maroon curve above it. Below, broad patches of bright yellow lie across the lower left, and a solid steel-blue rectangle tilts against them, edged with dark red hatching.

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.