Lot 58
George Grosz
(American/German, 1893-1959)
Fabrik (Factory), 1930
Sale 2105 - American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
Dec 8, 2024
2:00PM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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10,000
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$15,240
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Lot Description
George Grosz
(American/German, 1893-1959)
Fabrik (Factory), 1930
watercolor on paper
inscribed No. 5 Fabrik (on the reverse)
20 x 16 in.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch. This work will be included in the forthcoming George Grosz catalogue raisonné of works on paper, currently being prepared.
Provenance:
The Artist, Berlin, 1930.
Coe Kerry Gallery, New York, New York.
Private Estate, New York.
By descent in the family to the present owner.
Private Collection, New York, New York.
Note:
The present watercolor was created for the related drawing that illustrates poem number nine, Die drei Soldaten und die Medizin(The Three Soliders and the Medicine, included in Bertolt Brecht's Die drei Soldaten), written in 1930 and published as an antiwar pamphlet in 1932.
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