Property from a Private Collector, London
George Grosz
The Hemingway Story (Death in the Afternoon)
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March 16, 05:41 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collector, London
George Grosz
1893 - 1959
The Hemingway Story (Death in the Afternoon)
signed Grosz (lower right); titled (on the verso)
watercolor and pen and ink on paper
15⅜ by 19¾ in.
39 by 50 cm.
Executed circa 1954-55.
To be included in the forthcoming Grosz Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Ralph Jentsch.
Private Collection, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kimelman, New York
Vera Lazuk Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's London, 9th February 2012, lot 172 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Hans Hess, George Grosz, New Haven, 1985, no. 226, p. 247, illustrated