George Grosz - Still-life with Draped Nude - image-1

Lot 368 N

George Grosz - Still-life with Draped Nude

Auction 1134 - overview Cologne
31.05.2019, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 5.580 € (incl. premium)

George Grosz

Still-life with Draped Nude
1951

Charcoal and pencil drawing with watercolour on firm drawing paper 55.3 x 37.3 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'GROSZ' lower right. Dated and inscribed '1951 April Htg' verso lower right and faded stamp "George Grosz Nachlass", therein numbered by hand "4 252 7" in ink and "L, Nr. 892" in pencil. - The lower margin verso with remnants of a former mounting, otherwise in fine condition.

Certificate

With a confirmation from Ralph Jentsch, Rome/Berlin, dated 24 April 2018. The work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by George Grosz.

Provenance

The artist's studio, Huntington, Long Island/New York; Skowhegan/Maine 1996, 50/50: Fifty Artists from Fifty Years of Skowhegan, exhibition and raffle; Private possession, USA

Exhibitions

New York 1966 (Pace Wildenstein Gallery/Robert Miller Gallery)