Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
George Grosz
Dr. Billig & Weiblicher Akt
Lot Closed
April 7, 01:03 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
George Grosz
1893 - 1959
Dr. Billig - recto
Weiblicher Akt (Female Nude) - verso
signed Grosz (lower right); inscribed Aus Dr. Billig/am Ende on the reverse
reed pen, pen and ink on paper
31 by 23.5 cm., 12¼ by 9¾ in.
Framed: 52.5 by 44 cm., 21¾ by 17¼ in.
Executed in 1920.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch, Berlin.
Studio of the artist, Berlin
Collection W. Menzel, Berlin (from 1963)
Galleria Milano, Milan
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3rd December 1985, lot 477 (titled as Strassenszene)
Collection Roy & Jenny Wright, London (from 1997)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Ulrich Becher & Antonio Del Guercio, George Grosz. Deutschland über Alles, 85 works from 1939 to 1936, Milan, 1963, illustrated (titled as Il. Dr. Billig)