George Grosz (1893-1959)
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George Grosz (1893-1959)

Prerow

已結束2019年5月14日

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George Grosz (1893-1959)
Prerow
signed, dated and inscribed 'Grosz 1930 Berlin' (lower right), inscribed 'from Pommerania' (extreme lower center) and numbered and titled 'No. 12 Prerow' (lower left); with Nachlass stamp (on the reverse)
pen and India ink on paper
18 1/8 x 23 5/8 in. (46 x 60 cm.)
Executed in Berlin in 1930

Estate of the artist.
Richard A. Cohn, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 149.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

專家說明

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.”