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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 2024 | Tumult | 6 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | |||
Works on Paper
44.2 x 34 cm (17.4 x 13.39 in)
India ink drawing on paper
Signed and dated in the lower right, inscribed “6” by hand in the lower left; With a handwritten title, an estate stamp and further inscriptions by a hand other than that of the artist in the lower center on the reverse
From the artist"s estate (1959). Private collection, Berlin. Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin. Private collection, Berlin. From an Swiss collection.
• Extensive exhibition history and with another figure sketch on the reverse. • Artistic breakthrough in 1916: Georg Ehrenfried Groß turns into George Grosz. The artist gains recognition in the art world through, among other things, an essay by Theodor Däubler and the publication of two drawings in the magazine "Neue Jugend". He began to work on the painting "Metropolis", which contains elements of our drawing . Accompanied by a certificate (copy) from Ralph Jentsch, Berlin, dated January 25, 2010. The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of works on paper. George Grosz 1893-1959, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, October 7 - December 30, 1962, cat. no. 145 (illustrated on p. 20). The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints, 1912-1930, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 20 - June 8, 1997, cat. no. 35 (illustrated in b/w on p. 72). George Grosz. Art as Social Criticism. Drawings, Watercolors and Prints, Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, November 24, 2007-February 17, 2008, cat. no. 3 (illustrated in color on p. 23). Fixsterne.100 Jahre Kunst auf Papier. Adolph Menzel bis Kiki Smith, Stiftung Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, May 31 - September 20, 2009, p. 39 (illustrated) Wunder auf Papier. Über 100 Jahre Zeichenkunst, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, July 23 - October 3, 2010, no page (illustrated) George Grosz. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Collagen, Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, September 11 - December 18, 2011; Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, February 17 - May 28, 2012, pp. 74f (illustrated) 1914. Die Avantgarde im Kampf, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, November 8, 2013 - February 23, 2014, pp. 196 (illustrated) and 384. Grosz, War, Grotesque, Buchheim Museum of the Imagination, Bernried, July 6 - November 2, 2014, p. 51 (illustrated in color). PAINTING still ALIVE.. On the way to modernity, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland, 11.11.2018-13.1.2019, p. 105 (with color ill.). Gross von Grosz. The Early Years, The Small Grosz Museum, Berlin, March 1 - October 24. Peter-Klaus Schuster (ed.), George Grosz. Berlin-New York, exhibition catalog, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1995, p. 133 (illustrated in a b/w). "You see, there is something tremendously tumultuous about Berlin, isn"t there?" George Grosz in a letter to Otto Schmalhausen, June 25, 1916. Called up: December 6, 2024 - ca. 18.32 h +/- 20 min.
Galerie Nierendorf (ed.), 1920-1970. Fünfzig Jahre Galerie Nierendorf. Rückblick, Dokumentation, Jubiläumsausstellung, Berlin 1970, cat. no. 336 (illustrated in b/w on p. 148).
George Grosz
Tumult
1916.
India ink drawing on paper (with the blindstamp "Progress").
Signed and dated in the lower right, inscribed “6” by hand in the lower left. With a handwritten title, an estate stamp and further inscriptions by a hand other than that of the artist in the lower center on the reverse. 44.2 x 34 cm (17.4 x 13.3 in), size of sheet.
With an ink figure sketch on the reverse. [AR].
•
Tumult
in der Großstadt (Big City Pandemonium): an early, apocalyptic drawing by George Grosz.
• From his main creative period in Berlin during World War I.
