Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings - Sale 2422, September 22, 2016

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441 ● GEORGE GROSZ
Grablegung (He was a great provider).
Gouache, watercolor, pen and ink and ink wash on paper, 1930. 462x600 mm; 18 1/4x235/8
inches. Signed and dated in ink and signed and dedicated “To Bernard and Becky with
love from George May 50” in pencil, lower right recto.
Ex-collection Bernard and Becky Reis, the artist’s accountant and wife, acquired directly
from the artist, 1950; Manny Silvermann Gallery, NewYork, with the label on the frame
back; Forum Gallery, NewYork, with the label on the frame back; Achim Moeller Fine
Art, NewYork, with the label on the frame back; private collection, England, 1999; sold
Christie’s, London, February 8, 2007, sale 7356, lot 665; purchased from the above by the
current owner.
Published in Simplicissimus, Munich, August 18, 1930, page 250 (illustrated).
Exhibited “RadicalViews: Phillip Evergood and George Grosz,” Forum Gallery, NewYork,
January-February 1998, page 16-17 (illustrated), with the label on the frame back.
Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
[20,000/30,000]