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Artist |
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George Grosz |
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Title |
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Der neue Mensch
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Medium |
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watercolor and pen and India ink over pencil on paper |
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Size |
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20 x 13.6 in. / 50.8 x 34.6 cm. |
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Year |
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1921 - |
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Description |
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George Grosz (1883-1959)
Der neue Mensch
stamped with signature 'GEORGE GROSZ' (lower left)
watercolor and pen and India ink over pencil on paper
20 x 13 5/8 in. (50.8 x 34.6 cm.)
Executed in 1921 |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
[Lot 121]
Impressionist Modern Works on Paper
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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Provenance |
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J.B. Neumann Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1946
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Exhibition |
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Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art; The Itami City Museum of Art and Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, George Grosz, Berlin-New York, April-September 2000, no. II-38 (illustrated, p. 89).
Rome, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, George Grosz, Berlino-New York, Tra Visioni e Realtà, May-July 2007, p. 114, no. 131 (illustrated in color)
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Literature |
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Das Kunstblatt, vol. I, 1921, p. 10.
Mynona, George Grosz, Dresden, 1922, p. 95.
U.M. Schneede, George Grosz, Die Welt ist ein Lunapark, 1977, no. 105.
U.M. Schneede, George Grosz, His life and work, New York, 1979, p. 171, no. 97 (illustrated in reverse, p. 66; dated 1920).
George Grosz, Berlin-New York, exh. cat., Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1995, p. 153 (illustrated).
The Berlin of George Grosz, Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912-1930, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1997, p. 9, no. 8 (illustrated; dated 1920)
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