Property from a Private Collection
George Grosz
The Tramp
Auction Closed
November 21, 09:32 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
George Grosz
1893 - 1959
The Tramp
signed George Grosz pinx. and dated Douglaston 1937 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
34 ¼ by 32 ¼ in.
87 by 82 cm.
Executed in Douglaston in 1937.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch.
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1981)
Acquired by descent from the above circa 2010 by the present owner
New York, World’s Fair, American Art Today, 1939-40, no. 199, p. 78
New York, City Art Museum, Thirty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, 1940, no. 27
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Paintings, Drawings, Prints by George Grosz, 1941, no. 40.4100
The Cincinnati Modern Art Society, George Grosz, A Retrospective Exhibition of His Art, 1942
Berlin, Akademie der Kunst; Dortmund, Museum Ostwall; London, Arts Council and Bristol, City Art Gallery, George Grosz 1893-1959, 1962-63, no. 27
Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum, George Grosz, Works in Oil, 1977, no. 38, p. 28, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, George Grosz, Works in Oil, 1978, no. 18, illustrated
Mobile, Alabama, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Modernism and American Painting of the 1930s, 1993, p. 10
The Arts Students League of New York, ed., George Grosz, Instructor: Life Drawing, Painting, Composition, 1945, p. 2
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