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.
”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.). 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. [3028] Framed
Provenance
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.
