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GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)
Nach dem Verhör
signed and dated 'GROSZ 1935' (lower right)
gouache, watercolour, reed pen and pen and ink on paper
18 1/2 x 24 1/8 in. (47 x 61.1 cm.)
Executed in 1935
Provenance
Arnott J. White New York, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, New York, 6 November 1991, lot 140.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Literature
G. Grosz, Interregnum, New York, 1936, pl. 51 (illustrated).
G. Grosz, George Grosz 30 Drawings & Watercolors, New York, 1944, pl. 20 (illustrated).
H. Bittner (ed.), George Grosz New York, 1960, illustrated no. 65, p. 48 (illustrated pl. 65).
A. Dückers, George Grosz Das druckgraphische Werk, Frankfurt, 1979, S II, 51, p. 235 (illustrated p. 95; titled 'Sie brachten nichts aus ihm heraus').
B. Möckel, 'Das Ende der Menschlichkeit, George Grosz' Zeichnungen, Lithographien und Aquarelle aus Anlaß der Ermordung Erich Mühsams', Schriften der Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft, vol. 13, 1997, no. 14, p. 39 (illustrated p. 28).
Exh. cat., George Grosz Berlin - New York, Rome, 2007, no. 278, p. 198 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, George Grosz January - March 1954, no. 53, p. 61 (illustrated p. 22); this exhibition later travelled to Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, May 1954; Pasadena, Art Institute, June - July 1954; and San Francisco, Museum of Art, August - September 1954.
Oranienburg, Gedenkstätte Sachsenhusen, Konzentrationslager Oranienburg, October - December 1994, no. 24/25, p. 215 (illustrated p. 116).
Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Grosz, Berlin - New York, April - September 2000, no. II-93, p. 67 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Itami, City Museum of Art, June - July 2000; and Tochigi, Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, August - September 2000.
Berlin, Nolan Judin Berlin, George Grosz The Years in America 1933-1958, February - April 2009, no. 19, p. 78 (illustrated pp. 79, 80-81, detail); this exhibition later travelled to New York, David Nolan Gallery, September - October 2009.
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Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work.