Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonne (The Complete 3 Volume Set)

Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A gorgeous example of this sweeping catalogue raisonne of the great German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948). Complete in 3 massive volumes, all clean and near-pristine in their lovely dustjackets. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in crisp, easily Near Fine to Fine dustjackets. Thick, tall quartos, first-rate color and black-and-white reproductions throughout. Vol. I: Catalogue Raisonne 1905-1922 ("638 pages, 997 illustrations, 104 in colour") ; Vol. II: Catalogue Raisonne 1923-1936 ("604 pages, 1071 illustrations, 118 in colour"); Vol. III: Catalogue Raisonne 1937-1948 ("784 pages, 1,312 illustrations, 119 in colour"). Text in both English and German. (From the dustjacket front flap: "Although Kurt Schwitters was one of the most influential artists of international Modernism, so far only certain parts of his immensely varied pictorial work have been thoroughly investigated. Now his oeuvre has been documented and properly acknowledged for the first time in a three-volume catalogue raisonne. More than 3,800 works from the period between 1905 and 1948, among them numerous previously unpublished pictures and paintings, are presented to the public after world-wide research and a complete sighting of his artistic estate. Schwitters' works are ordered chronologically and, within years, according to genre. All works are shown in black-and-white; lost and destroyed works are also documented. In addition 341 representative works are reproduced in colour.").