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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 22, 2012 | Kunsthaus Lempertz | Cologne | Moderne Kunst | 221 | $****** - ****** | The Checkered Napkin |
paintings
50.5 x 40.2 cm (19.88 x 15.83 in)
oil on canvas, mounted onto firm painter's cardboard
Signed and dated Grosz 36 in red lower left as well as on reverse additionally signed, dated and inscribed GROSZ 1936 DOUGLASTON Oktober in ink brush, with title and year in black and partly pasted over by paper labels [...ch]eckered [...] 1936. With stamp "George Grosz Nachlass" [Estate George Grosz], therein numbered "115" handwritten in ink. - The reverse with numerous notes from different pens with number-combinations and among others twice "MARTIN" and "CHICAGO 38". With printed paper labels: "WALKER GALLERIES", therein filled out with name of artist, title and catalogue number, "FROM THE GALLERIES OF THE ASSOCIATED AMERICAN ARTISTS New York", therein among others name of artist and title in typewriting, the partly torn off label "On Lo[an f]rom the Circulating Galler[y] of th[e] Dayton Art [Institute] No. 4961" as well as the label by the painting utensil firm "FREDRI[...] RED LION CANVAS PANELS". The frame with the branding stamp "MADE IN FRANCE".
Estate of the artist (nr. 115)
acquired from the previous owner by Martin Grosz
private collection USA
Chicago 1938/1939 (Art Institute), George Grosz. Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (pencil note on reverse); probably New York 1939 (Walker Galleries), George Grosz. Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, nr. 16 (with paper label on reverse); probably New York 1943 (Associated American Artists), George Grosz. Paintings (with paper label on reverse); Ohio ? (Circulating Gallery at the Dayton Art Institute), nr. 4961(with paper label on reverse)
