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Little Dance

1920
(German, 1887–1948)
Germany, 20th century
collage
Support: Paper?, laid down on cardboard
Sheet: 13.1 x 10.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Mounted: 23 x 17 cm (9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1963.1
Location: not on view
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With collages of densely interwoven scraps of paper gleaned from daily life, Schwitters produced dynamic compositions in which the interaction of the materials becomes a kind of dance. Notice here the way the color red "dances" among the subdued tones of white, gray, and ocher.
Little Dance

Little Dance

1920

Kurt Schwitters

(German, 1887–1948)
Germany, 20th century

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