Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration from the gilt-edged roundel to

from the gilt-edged roundel to the careful interplay of warm and cool tones

rendered in the cool

The composition is spare yet alive

green and blue build a sense of depth without relying on fine detail

Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration from the gilt-edged roundel toPlate 7 closes the Merz 3 lithograph series with a composition of considered restraint angular forms hold against soft ground, and the interplay of positive and negative space gives the work an open, almost meditative quality. Where earlier plates in the series lean toward visual density, Pl7 breathes. It is a fitting end to a portfolio that mapped the full range of Schwitters' graphic imagination, from accumulation to economy, within the Merz