Seid fruchtbar und mehret euch - Die Religion muss dem Volke erhalten bleiben. 1922.
India ink drawing over pencil.
lower right signed. On creme wove paper by Schoeller (with the blindstamp "Schoeller Burg Gretesch"). 65 x 52 cm (25.5 x 20.4 in), the the full sheet.
Verso with inscription. The drawing served as model for the illustration on p. 33 of the first edition of the artist book "Abrechnug folgt!" published by Malik-Verlag, Berlin in 1923. [CB].
This work will be included into the forthcoming oeuvre catalog of works on paper, compiled by Mr Ralph Jentsch .
PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate (verso withteh stamp and the hand-written number "3-62-9").
Private collection Greece.
EXHIBITION: Goya, Daumier, Grosz. Il trionfo dell'idiozia. Pregiudizi, follie e banalità dellesistenza europea, Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples and Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome 1992, cat. no. 242, illu. on p. 221.
La lente di Freud. Una galleria dell'inconscio, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena 2008/2009, illu. on p. 319.
LITERATURE: George Grosz, Das Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse & Abrechnung folgt!, Frankfurt 1972, illu. on p. 91.
Called up: December 7, 2017 - ca. 16.15 h +/- 20 min.