Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration almost windswept arrangement of its

almost windswept arrangement of its petals

The fine art print preserves the quiet precision of the original's woodblock aesthetic

The composition is spare yet alive

primary-adjacent colour fields

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

Merz 3 Kurt Schwitters 6 Lithos Pl7 by Kurt Schwitters Illustration almost windswept arrangement of itsPlate 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