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GEORGE GROSZ (1893-1959)
Schlangenhaut und Pantinen
signed, dated, inscribed and numbered 'GROSZ 1927 Berlin No 11 Schlangenhaut und Pantinen' (lower left); inscribed 'Simpel' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour, reed pen and pen and ink on paper
18 1/8 x 23 1/2 in. (45.9 x 59.9 cm.)
Executed in Berlin in 1927
Provenance
Tirca Karlis Gallery, New York, by 1957.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, by 1957.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., a gift from the above in 1966; sale, Christie’s, New York, 25 February 1992, lot 46.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, George Grosz Dessins et aquarelles, February 1966 (illustrated; titled 'Ouvrier au repos').
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, George Grosz September 1978 - January 1979, no. 20, p. 28 (illustrated p. 29).
New York, Galerie St. Etienne, George Grosz/Elfriede Lohse Wächtler, September - November 1998.
Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Grosz, Berlin - New York, April - September 2000, no. II-76, p. 67 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Itami, City Museum of Art, June - July 2000; and Tochigi, Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, August - September 2000.
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Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work.