Modern & Contemporary Auction
Modern & Contemporary Auction
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
George Grosz
Dr. Billig & Weiblicher Akt
Lot Closed
April 7, 01:03 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
George Grosz
1893 - 1959
Dr. Billig - recto
Weiblicher Akt (Female Nude) - verso
signed Grosz (lower right); inscribed Aus Dr. Billig/am Ende on the reverse
reed pen, pen and ink on paper
31 by 23.5 cm., 12¼ by 9¾ in.
Framed: 52.5 by 44 cm., 21¾ by 17¼ in.
Executed in 1920.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch, Berlin.
Studio of the artist, Berlin
Collection W. Menzel, Berlin (from 1963)
Galleria Milano, Milan
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 3rd December 1985, lot 477 (titled as Strassenszene)
Collection Roy & Jenny Wright, London (from 1997)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Ulrich Becher & Antonio Del Guercio, George Grosz. Deutschland über Alles, 85 works from 1939 to 1936, Milan, 1963, illustrated (titled as Il. Dr. Billig)
London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Berlin of George Grosz. Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930, 1997, no. 78, illustrated p. 116 (titled as Dr. Billig)