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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 18, 2025 | Swann Auctions | New York | 19th & 20th Century Art | 107 | $****** - ****** | Zur Arbeit, Paris. |
Works on Paper
64.1 x 48.9 cm (25.25 x 19.25 in)
Reed pen and ink on cream wove paper
Signed in pencil, lower right. Inscribed "2 Lazuk" and "19 Arbeiter" in pencil, verso
The artist, Berlin, 1925.
Collection of Vera and Alexander Lazuk, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
[with] Vera Lazuk Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York (label).
Estate of the above.
Private collection, Long Island, New York.
"George Grosz on Long Island," The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, November 7 - December 6, 1959, number 67 (detail illustrated).
"George Grosz A Memorial Show," Vera Luzak Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, July 5 - 25, 1964, number 15 (illustrated).
George Grosz recorded the society around him, enthralled and at times disgusted with everyday life. During the 1920s, Grosz, already a popular artist known for his satire, was tried and fined on several occasions for anti-militarism, blasphemy, and defaming public morals in his artwork. In 1924, Grosz made a trip to Paris and drew this bustling street scene. A trip to Switzerland followed. Back in Berlin, Grosz was disturbed by the advances of the Nazis and when an invitation to teach at the Art Students League in New York arrived in 1932, Grosz and his family acted quickly. They rented a house in Bayside, Queens and Grosz became a United States citizen in November 1938.
Grosz and his family moved to Huntington, Long Island in 1946, where he purchased a cottage renovated to accommodate a two-story art studio. Grosz began a close friendship with the gallerist Vera Lazuk and her family in nearby Cold Spring Harbor. Lazuk was a supporter of the Heckscher Museum, lending the present work and others for various exhibitions and donating a number of works to the museum.
George Grosz
(1893-1959)
Zur Arbeit, Paris.
Reed pen and ink on cream wove paper, 1925.
Signed in pencil, lower right. Inscribed "2 Lazuk" and "19 Arbeiter" in pencil, verso.
25 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (64.4 x 49 cm.)
Note:
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch.
