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Property from a Private Collector, London

George Grosz

The Hemingway Story (Death in the Afternoon)

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collector, London

George Grosz

1893 - 1959

The Hemingway Story (Death in the Afternoon)


signed Grosz (lower right); titled on the reverse

watercolour and pen and ink on paper

39 by 50cm., 15⅜ by 19¾in.

Framed: 63.5 by 74cm., 25 by 29⅛in.

Executed circa 1954-55.


To be included in the forthcoming Grosz Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Ralph Jentsch.

Private Collection
Mr & Mrs Ben Kimelman, New York
Vera Lazuk Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 9th February 2012, lot 172)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner 
Hans Hess, George Grosz, New Haven, 1985, no. 226, illustrated p. 247