George Grosz (1893-1959)

A maverick from movie land

Details

George Grosz (1893-1959)
A maverick from movie land
signed with the signature stamp and inscribed 'GROSZ A Maverick from movie land' (lower right), dated and inscribed 'to Ben Hecht 1001 Afternoon 1941' (lower left)
reed pen and pen and ink on paper
23 3/8 x 18 ¼ in. (59.4 x 46.2 cm.)
Executed in 1941

Provenance

The artist's estate (with the Nachlass stamp and numbered `4.50.11' on the reverse).
Private collection, Turin.

Literature

B. Hecht, 1001 Afternoons in New York, New York, 1941 (illustrated p. 69).
B. Hecht, 1001 Nachmittage in New York, Frankfurt, 1992 (illustrated p. 87).

Lot Essay

Sold with a photo-certificate from Ralph Jentsch.

The present work comes from a series of 86 drawings created as illustrations for ‘1001 Afternoons in Chicago’, a collection of political newspaper writings by artist’s friend Ben Hecht.

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