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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 122 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | ERBEN (BEGRÄBNIS) (HEIRS (FUNERAL)) & TRAURIGER MANN (SAD MAN) (A DOUBLE-SIDED WORK) |
Works on Paper
51.8 x 64.8 cm (20.38 x 25.5 in)
Pen and ink on paper
Estate of the artist
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mt. Kisco, New York (acquired by 1993)
A gift from the above to The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation in 2016
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, George Grosz, Dessins et aquarelles, 1966, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue (titled Le Miroir du petit bourgeois)
New York, New York Studio School, George Grosz in Germany: Works on Paper, 1913-1925, 2013-14, illustrated in color in the catalogue
George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, 60 Berliner Bilder nach Zeichnungen, Mit einer Selbstdarstellung des Künstlers, Dresden, 1925, illustrated n.p.
Marcel Ray, George Grosz, peintres et sculpteurs, Paris, 1927, illustrated pl. 8 (titled En famille (Le Miroir du bourgeois) and dated 1925)
George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Sechzig Illustrationen nach Zeichnungen, Mit einer Spiesserbiologie von Walter Mehring, Dresden, 1932, illustrated n.p.
George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, 60 Zeichnungen, Berlin-Grunewald, 1955, illustrated n.p.
George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Image of the German Babbitt, 60 Drawings by George Grosz, With an Autobiographical Sketch by the Artist and Additional Remarks by Walter Mehring, New York, 1968, illustrated n.p.
George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Frankfurt, 1973, illustrated pl. 33
George Grosz, Lo Specchio del borghese, introduzione di Enzo Bilardello, Milan, 1976, illustrated n.p.
Marcel Ray, George Grosz, Berlin, 1991, illustrated p. 56 (titled Im Familienkreis and dated 1925)
George Grosz, George Grosz, Der Spiesser-Spiegel, Frankfurt, 2019, illustrated n.p.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ralph Jentsch.
