Lot 5
Lot 5
GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

Die guten Jahre

Price Realised GBP 175,000
Estimate
GBP 160,000 - GBP 210,000
Closed: 12 Nov 2020
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GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)

Die guten Jahre

Price Realised GBP 175,000
Closed: 12 Nov 2020
Price Realised GBP 175,000
Closed: 12 Nov 2020
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GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)
Die guten Jahre
signed 'GROSZ' (lower right)
watercolour, reed pen and pen and ink on card
1938 x 1578 in. (49 x 40.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1920
Provenance
Mr & Mrs J.A. Nooan, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin, by 1990.
Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired from the above in 1997, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
H. Richter, '26. Westdeutsche Kunstmesse', in Weltkunst, Munich, 1 March 1995, p. 558.
Exhibited
Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Villa Grisebach, 40 Jahre Kunsthandlung Pels-Leusden, Ausgewählte Werke, September - November 1990, p. 69 (illustrated).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints, 1912-1930, March - June 1997, no. 93, p. 132 (illustrated p. 133).
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