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Kurt Schwitters
1887–1948
Crawley and de Reya Solicitors (London, UK) - Title
- Schwitters’ last will and testament with related legal document
- Date
- 15 November 1947–17 October 1958
- Description
- Kurt Schwitters' will leaving his possessions to Edith Thomas and legal document presenting the will as an exhibit, possibly in the court case between Edith Thomas and Ernst Schwitters.
- Format
- Document - writings
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
- Reference
- TGA 9510/3/1/1
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Kurt Schwitters Photocopy of Kurt Schwitters’ last will and testament
15 November 1947 -
George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK), Harold Handley, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Harold Handley at Geo. Gatey & Son to Edith Thomas about Kurt Schwitters’ last will and testament
24 March 1948 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK) Letter from the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about Ernst Schwitters’ wishes for his father’s collages
24 February 1949 -
Collection owner: Kurt Schwitters Letter to Edith Thomas from Geo. Gatey & Son with enclosed letter from the Museum of Modern Art about the transport of Schwitters’ collages
21–26 April 1949 -
Edith “Wanty” Thomas, recipient: Ernst Schwitters Letter to Ernst Schwitters from Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) about Kurt Schwitters’ affairs following his death
4 May [1948] -
Kurt Schwitters, recipient: Ernst Schwitters English translation of a letter from Kurt Schwitters to his son, Ernst
22 November 1948 -
Ernst Schwitters, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Ernst Schwitters to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) regarding the sale, preservation and inheritance of Kurt Schwitters’ work
12 February 1949 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: Eve Schwitters Letter to Eve Schwitters from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art about Kurt Schwitters’ collage work held at the Museum
24 February 1949 -
Collection owner: Kurt Schwitters Letter to Geo. Gatey & Son from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art, forwarded on to Edith Thomas and Ernst Schwitters
22 December 1948–8 January 1949 -
George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK), recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Geo. Gatey & Son to Edith Thomas regarding the transport of Schwitters’ work
13 October 1949 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA) Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son with letter from Margaret to Eve Schwitters enclosed
6 October 1949 -
Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA) Invoice from the Museum of Modern Art for Schwitters’, ‘Paper Clouds’ collage
31 January 1949 -
Edith “Wanty” Thomas, recipient: Quarto Typescript of Edith Thomas’s account of her relationship with Schwitters
date not known -
Ernst Schwitters, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Photocopy of a letter sent from Ernst Schwitters to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’)
12 February 1949 -
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK) Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work
6 April 1948
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