George Grosz (1893-1959)
拍品 249

George Grosz (1893-1959)

Posh Couple

已结束2011年2月10日

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GBP 43,250

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George Grosz (1893-1959)
Posh Couple
signed 'Grosz' (lower right)
watercolour, pen and India ink and pencil on paper
19½ x 15¼ in. (49.5 x 38.8 cm.)
Executed in 1954

Acquired directly from the artist by the family of the present owner, and thence by descent.

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Sold with a photo-certificate from Ralph Jentsch.
This work will be included in the forthcoming George Grosz catalogue raisonné in preparation by Ralph Jentsch.

This is one of three watercolours by George Grosz (lots 248-250) that were a gift from the artist to Henry Cornelius, a film director who worked with Grosz on the 1955 film adaptation of the John van Druten's Broadway play I am a Camera, and have remained in his family to this day. Inspired by Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood, the film starred Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters, with the screenplay by John Collier.