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Lot 139 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
George Grosz (1893-1959)
Prerow
Closed14 May 2019
Price Realised
USD 16,250
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Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Prerow was a popular vacation resort on the Baltic Sea where George Grosz and his family spent summers beginning in 1924. According to Ralph Jentsch, to Grosz’s distaste, they were “packed with the very people he tried to avoid in Berlin, all engaged in uninhibited celebration of their national Germanism.” Despite this, Grosz also “experienced in Prerow peaceful scenes, like he captured in this very drawing showing…good kind farmers in their local surrounding…[The drawing] was selected among 63 other drawings to be reproduced in 1936 in the portfolio Interregnum, published by the renowned New York publisher Caresse Crosby of The Black Sun Press, with an introduction by John Dos Passos.”
Prerow was a popular vacation resort on the Baltic Sea where George Grosz and his family spent summers beginning in 1924. According to Ralph Jentsch, to Grosz’s distaste, they were “packed with the very people he tried to avoid in Berlin, all engaged in uninhibited celebration of their national Germanism.” Despite this, Grosz also “experienced in Prerow peaceful scenes, like he captured in this very drawing showing…good kind farmers in their local surrounding…[The drawing] was selected among 63 other drawings to be reproduced in 1936 in the portfolio Interregnum, published by the renowned New York publisher Caresse Crosby of The Black Sun Press, with an introduction by John Dos Passos.”