Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (thence by descent from the artist)
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (1981)
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired circa 1998)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Donald B. Marron Family Collection (acquired from the above in November 2006)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2020
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Schwitters, March–June 1963, no. 141; then traveled as Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kurt Schwitters. 1887–1948, October 9–November 24, 1963, no. 163; then traveled as Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kurt Schwitters, 1887–1948: Schilderijen, collages, sculpturen, tekeningen, January 24–March 4, 1964, no. 143, n.p.; then traveled as Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Schwitters, April–May 1964, no. 74
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Collagen aus sechs Jahrzehnten, April 6–May 19, 1968, no. 79 (illustrated)
Zurich, Kunstgewebemuseum der Stadt Zürich, Collagen, Die Geschichte der Collage, June 8–August 18, 1968
Durham, DLI Museum & Arts Centre; Sheffield, Graves Gallery; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Germany in Ferment Festival, October 16–December 1970
Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Die zwanziger Jahre (II): deutsche Kunst von 1924 bis 1933: Gemälde, Plastiken, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphiken, June 28–September 8, 1971, no. 445 (illustrated)
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Klassische Moderne—The Classical Moderns, May–August 1981, no. 160, p. 219 (illustrated)
Karuizawa, Museum of Modern Art; Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art; Otsu Store, Kurt Schwitters, July 20–January 1984, no. 75 (illustrated)
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, May–June 1985, no. 17, p. 6 (illustrated, p. 12)
Merz: Kurt Schwitters, 1887–1948: Retrospektivt, exh. cat., Konstsalongen Smlaren im Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, 1962
Kurt Schwitters, exh. cat., Stadtische Kunstalle, 1971
Laszlo Glozer, Western Art: Contemporary Art since 1939, exh. cat., Rheinhallen, Cologne, 1981
Kurt Schwitters, Words and Works: Art and Publications, exh. cat., Helen Serger/La Boetie, New York, 1985
Jutta Nestegard, Kurt Schwitters i Norge, Våren, 1993, p. 6 (illustrated)
Jutta Nestegard, Kurt Schwitters, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1994, pp. 262–265
Brigitte Franzen, "'Die Grossstadt – ein gewaltiges Merzkunstwerk ?’ Versuch uber Kurt Schwitters und die Architektur,” Neues Bauen der 20er Jahre. Gropius, Haesler, Schwitters und die Dammerstock-Seidlung in Karlsruhe, exh. cat., Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1997, p. 134 (illustrated)
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné: Band 2 1923–1936, Hannover, 2003, no. 1626, p. 308 (illustrated)