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George Grosz

Illustration zu Alphonse Daudet "Die Abenteuer des Herrn Tartarin aus Tarascon"
1920

ink on paper

17 × 30 cm / 6 11/16 × 11 13/16 in

Signed and inscribed ‘nicht veröffentlicht worden!’ also with a drawing 'Der Kaiser auf der Flucht/Lohnabzug' added in 1924 on the verso

Edition of ‘The Adventures of Mr Tartarin from Tarascon’ by Alphonse Daudet with illustrations by George Grosz was published in 1921; our drawing was not included (cf. p. 139)

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Expertise

Certificate of Authenticity by Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome 2025; Peter M. Grosz, Princeton 2001

Provenance

The artist's studio (1920 & 1924); Private Collection Bavaria (-1968); Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich (Auction 1, 17 May 1968, lot 347); Private Collection Munich (1968-); Private Collection Europe (-2000); Sotheby's, London (18 Oct. 2000, lot 221); Soufer Gallery, New York; Private Collection, New York (-2024)

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "50 Jahre", Part I, 4. Apr. - 7. Jun., Düsseldorf 2025

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "50 Jahre", Part I, Düsseldorf 2025, S. 31

About George Grosz

The German-American painter and caricaturist George Grosz is one of the main representatives of New Objectivity. With his astute illustrations of Wilhelmine society, he criticized the political and social circumstances at the beginning of the 20th century.