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Artist or Maker: George Grosz

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Description: Zwei Kriegsteilnehmer - Two Survivors (recto); Männliche Kopfstudie (verso)
signed and dated 'George Grosz 1926' (lower right); titled 'Zwei Kriegsteilnehmer - Two Survivors' (lower left); numbered, inscribed and titled 'No 51. Billiet "Bürgfrieden"'(on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and pen and India ink on paper (recto); pen and India ink and pencil on paper (verso)
24 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (62 x 49.5 cm.)
Executed in 1926 in Berlin

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Provenance: The artist's estate, Berlin.
Galerie Billiet, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 November 1984, lot 149.
Acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 February 1997, lot 54.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, April - May 2000. This exhibition later travelled to The Itami City Museum of Art, June - July 2000; and the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, August - September 2000.

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Published: E.S. Herrmann, George Grosz. 30 Drawings and Watercolours, New York, 1944, pl. 16 (titled 'Two War Veterans' and dated '1928').
P.L. Baruch (ed.), George Grosz. 30 Drawings and Watercolours, New York, 1948, (titled 'Two War Veterans' and dated '1928').

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Notes: THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTOR

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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