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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2023 | Karl & Faber | Munich | Modern Art | Day Sale | 498N | Estimates not disclosed | Set design for “The drunken ship” by P. Zech |
Works on Paper
52.5 x 65 cm (20.67 x 25.59 in)
Watercolour, gouache and Indian ink on cardboard
With notes on the size of the stage design below the depiction. Inscribed with staging instructions lower left: “Über das ganze Bild schwarze Gitter, die am Schluss weggezogen werden. / auch auf dem Horizont. / Mitte ganz dunkel, Fenster.”
Estate of George Grosz, with stamp on verso (not in Lugt);
Serge Sabarsky Gallery, New York;
Private collection, USA.
Theatrical Drawings and Watercolors by George Grosz, Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, u.a. 1973/74, Kat.-Nr. 58., mit s/W Abb.
George Grosz
1893 - Berlin - 1959
Set design for “The drunken ship” by P. Zech
Watercolour, gouache and Indian ink on cardboard. (Around 1925). Ca. 52.5 x 65 cm. With notes on the size of the stage design below the depiction. Inscribed with staging instructions lower left: “Über das ganze Bild schwarze Gitter, die am Schluss weggezogen werden. / auch auf dem Horizont. / Mitte ganz dunkel, Fenster.”
• The 1926 show was a then unknown new kind of theatre in which artists of various professions collaborated and worked in pioneering techniques
• Grosz" design was the prototype for a monumental projection and shows traces of the intense working process
• Beloved caricatures of the era are shown here in vivid colours
With the beginnings of another sketch on the reverse and inscribed along the lower edge “TR-1894.117” by an unknown hand.
