GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

Lot 476
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Lot 476 | GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)
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GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

Broadway (recto); Havana cigars (verso)

signed and dated 'GROSZ 36' (recto, lower right)

oil, gouache, watercolour, reed pen and pen and ink on paper (recto); reed pen and pen and ink on paper (verso)

19 3/4 x 15 3/8 in. (50.2 x 39.1 cm.)

Executed in 1936





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist in 1959; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 24 May 1990, lot 229.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.



Literature

Exh. cat., George Grosz: Berlin - New York, Rome, 2007, no. 289, p. 203 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Grosz, Berlin - New York, April - September 2000, no. II-97 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Itami, City Museum of Art, June - July 2000; and Tochigi, Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, August - September 2000.



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