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Lot 364 Dα

George Grosz - Maienzeit

Auction 1134 - overview Cologne
31.05.2019, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

George Grosz

Maienzeit
1924

Pen and ink on paper, laid down on card 56.5 x 45.8 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'Grosz' in pencil lower right. Verso formerly with a further drawing (Trautes Heim) and the stamp "George Grosz Nachlass", therein noted in ink "3 63 5". - Slightly browned and with faint light-stain. Some minute foxing.

Certificate

With a photo-certificate from Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome, dated 5 March 2019; the work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by George Grosz.

Provenance

Artist's studio, Berlin (1924); estate George Grosz (1959); Karl & Faber, Munich, auction 184, 1/2 Dec. 1992, lot 672; Lempertz, Cologne, auction 691, 26 May 1993, lot 194; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions

Berlin 1962 (Galerie Nierendorf), Ohne Hemmung. Gesicht und Kehrseite der Jahre 1914-1924 schonungslos enthüllt von George Grosz. Zeichnungen und farbige Blätter, cat. no. 29 with illus.