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George Grosz

The Invasion

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

George Grosz

1893 - 1959


The Invasion

signed Grosz (lower left); signed G. Grosz, titled, inscribed Douglaston and dated May 1947 (on the verso)

watercolor on paper

20 by 26 in.

50.8 by 66 cm.

Executed in May 1947.


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

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (acquired in 1948)

Sotheby, Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, 3 May 1972, lot 190 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, New York (acquired in the 1960s)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owners

Birgit Möckel, George Grosz in Amerika, 1932-1969, Frankfurt and New York, 1997, no. 714, pp. 326 and 576, fig. 157, illustrated

New York, Associated American Artists Galleries, George Grosz: The Stick Men, 1948, no. 15

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Pasadena Art Institute; San Francisco Museum of Art, George Grosz, 1954, no. 75

Huntington, New York, The Heckscher Museum, The Changing Face of War, 1969, n.n.

New Rochelle Public Library, Art From Private Collections, 1980