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George Grosz

1893 – Berlin – 1959

”Ein Abend in Berlin/Keiner sagt es/After the Dinner”. 1930

Watercolour, body colour as well as brush, reed pen and pen and black ink over pencil on white paper. 46 × 60 cm (18 ⅛ × 23 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: George Grosz. ”Ein Abend in Berlin/Keiner sagt es/After the Dinner”. 1930.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 89,900

 

- 135,000

Sold for:

101,600 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 05.06.2025

Information

Watercolour, body colour as well as brush, reed pen and pen and black ink over pencil on white paper. 46 × 60 cm (18 ⅛ × 23 ⅝ in.). Signed over pencil in pen and brown ink lower right : GROSZ. Below this dated in pencil: 1930. Inscribed in pencil lower left: No 1 keiner sagt es [erased] 6 after the dinner. Accompanied by a confirmation by Ralph Jentsch dated 5 March 2025. The watercolour will be included in the catalogue raisonné of works on paper by George Grosz by Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome. Accompanied by a confirmation by Peter M. Grosz, Estate of George Grosz, from 31.1.1980. Framed

George Grosz (1933 taken to New York) / Private Collection, Switzerland / Private Collection, Berlin (1997 acquired at Grisebach, Berlin)

Der Querschnitt, XII. volume, 1932, illustration of the drawing before colouring on p. 191 (with the signature: – Jetzt ist Goethe schon hundert Jahre tot ... – Was wollen Sie? Der Mann hat ja schließlich auch über 80 Jahre gelebt!) / Auction: Impressionist and Modern Drawings and Watercolors. Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 15.5.1980, cat. no. 346, ill. („Five O’Clock Tea“) / Auction 56: Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 30.5.1997, cat. no. 43, ill. 

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