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Artist or Maker: George Grosz (1893-1959)

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Description: Das Modell (Sommer II)
signed 'Grosz' (lower left); with the Nachlass stamp numbered '1.29.10' (on the reverse)
watercolour and pen and ink on paper
25 7/8 x 18 3/4 in. (65.6 x 47.5 cm.)
Executed in 1927 in Berlin

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Provenance: The artist's estate.
Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, by 1974.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1982.

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Exhibited: Berlin, Akademie der Künste, October - December 1962, no. 96; part of this exhibition later travelled to York, Art Gallery; London, Arts Council; and Bristol, City Gallery, April - June 1963.
Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Georges Grosz, an exhibition organised by The Museum of Modern Art New York, January - February 1971, no. 34; Parma, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, April - May 1971; and Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, July - Angust 1971.
Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Réalisme en Allemagne, 1919-1933, February - March 1974, no. 53 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Chambéry, April - May 1974.
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Collects: drawings and watercolors 1900-1950, May - August 1999, no. 60 (illustrated p. 151).

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Published: Arts Review, 5 April 1974, vol. XXV, no. 7 (illustrated on the cover).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM AN ENGLISH COLLECTION

Ralph Jentsch has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this drawing, and will include it in his forthcoming George Grosz works on paper Catalogue raisonné.

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