GEORGE GROSZ | ERBEN (BEGRÄBNIS) (HEIRS (FUNERAL)) & TRAURIGER MANN (SAD MAN) (A DOUBLE-SIDED WORK)

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June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY FROM THE WILLIAM LOUIS-DREYFUS FOUNDATION

GEORGE GROSZ

1893 - 1959

ERBEN (BEGRÄBNIS) (HEIRS (FUNERAL)) & TRAURIGER MANN (SAD MAN) (A DOUBLE-SIDED WORK)

Signed Grosz (lower right); inscribed Erben (lower left); stamped with the Nachlass mark (on the verso)

Pen and ink on paper

20⅜ by 25½ in. (51.8 by 64.8 cm)

Framed: 27 by 31½ in. (68.6 by 80 cm)

Executed circa 1920.

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch.

Estate of the artist

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mt. Kisco, New York (acquired by 1993)

A gift from the above to The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation in 2016

George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, 60 Berliner Bilder nach Zeichnungen, Mit einer Selbstdarstellung des Künstlers, Dresden, 1925, illustrated n.p.

Marcel Ray, George Grosz, peintres et sculpteurs, Paris, 1927, illustrated pl. 8 (titled En famille (Le Miroir du bourgeois) and dated 1925)

George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Sechzig Illustrationen nach Zeichnungen, Mit einer Spiesserbiologie von Walter Mehring, Dresden, 1932, illustrated n.p.

George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, 60 Zeichnungen, Berlin-Grunewald, 1955, illustrated n.p.

George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Image of the German Babbitt, 60 Drawings by George Grosz, With an Autobiographical Sketch by the Artist and Additional Remarks by Walter Mehring, New York, 1968, illustrated n.p.

George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Frankfurt, 1973, illustrated pl. 33

George Grosz, Lo Specchio del borghese, introduzione di Enzo Bilardello, Milan, 1976, illustrated n.p.

Marcel Ray, George Grosz, Berlin, 1991, illustrated p. 56 (titled Im Familienkreis and dated 1925)

George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Frankfurt, 2019, illustrated n.p.