Lot 92
  • 92

George Grosz 1893-1959

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • George Grosz
  • Bürgerkrieg
  • signed Grosz (lower right), later inscribed 19) (500) 800 (in lower corners); inscribed, possibly in a later hand Skizze zu "Civil War" Abb: A little yes and a big No,  Seite 205, and with Nachlass stamp numbered 5 171 3; LyNr 1620, TR 1479.177 (on the reverse)
  • pencil on paper
  • sheet: 23 1/2 by 18 1/8 in.
  • 60 by 46 cm.
  • executed in 1930

Provenance

Studio of the artist, Berlin, 1932
George Grosz Estate, 1959
(Sale: Hauswedell & Nolte, New York and Hamburg, December 2, 2000, lot 955 [as Brecht, Die drei Soldaten])
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Catalogue Note

Studies in pen and ink of a neoclassical frame and figures fighting, on the reverse.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of works on paper being prepared by Ralph Jentsch.