Lot 133
  • 133

George Grosz

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • George Grosz
  • Small Driftwood
  • Signed Grosz (lower right); signed George Grosz (on the reverse); signed George Grosz (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 13 1/4 by 19 1/8 in.
  • 33.6 by 48.5 cm

Provenance

Vera Lazuk Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Acquired from the above in 1959

Exhibited

Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Vera Lazuk Gallery, George Grosz. A Retrospective Show, 1959, no. 6

Literature

Dorothy Grafly, "George Grosz - Painter and Prophet," in American Artist, vol. XIII, no. 3, issue 123, March, 1959, illustrated p. 22
George Grosz on Long Island (exhibition catalogue), The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, Long Island, 1959, illustrated p. 10
Birgit Möckel, "George Grosz in Amerika, 1932-1959," in Europäische, Hochshulshriften, Reihe XXVII, Kunstgeschichte, v. CCCX, no. 74, illustrated p. 264

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. The canvas is not lined. The surface is nicely textured and the impasto has been well preserved. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
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