GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

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£ 15 000
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30.06.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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ID 990464
Lot 443 | GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)
GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

Der Dank des Vaterlandes (recto); Die Rutschbahn (verso)

with the Nachlass stamp and numbered '2-120-2' (verso)

watercolour, brush, reed pen, pen and India ink and pencil on buff paper (recto); pen and ink and pencil on buff paper (verso)

19 1/4 x 14 5/8 in. (49 x 37.2 cm.)

Executed in 1921





Provenance

The artist’s estate (no. 2-120-2).

Ilse Schweinsteiger Kunsthandel, Munich.

Acquired from the above by the present owner on 11 November 1999.



Literature

Recto: W. Schuster, Der Dank des Vaterlandes, Leipzig, 1921 (the final state illustrated on the cover).

Verso: I. Ježower, Die Rutschbahn. Das Buch vom Abenteurer, Berlin, 1922 (the final state illustrated on the cover).

Exh. cat., Man in the Middle - From the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, 2002, p. 90 (recto illustrated; with incorrect medium).



Exhibited

Munich, Ilse Schweinsteiger, George Grosz, 1999, no. 71.



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