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Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

George Grosz

Aufruhr

No reserve

Lot Closed

April 11, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

George Grosz

1893 - 1959

Aufruhr


signed Grosz and dated 15 (lower right); titled (lower left); stamped with the Nachlass mark (on the verso)

brush and ink on paper

11⅝ by 18 in.

29.4 by 45.9 cm.

Executed in 1915.


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

Kindly note the correct title for this work is Aufruhr.

Estate of the artist, Berlin

Edouard Roditi, Paris

Galerie Michael Hansenclever, Munich (acquired in 1973)

Christies New York, 16 May 1979, lot 114

Private Collection, New York

Christie's New York, 5 October 1989, lot 52

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired in 1989)

The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York (gifted by the above in 2016)

Munich, Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Realismus der Zwanziger Jahre, 1973, no. 15, illustrated (titled Chaos)

New York, New York Studio School, George Grosz: Works on Paper, 1913-1925, 2013, pl. 5, illustrated (titled Chaos)

Robert Cicetti, “The Shock and Awe of George Grosz,” Hyperallergic, 2013, illustrated