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Date
1915
Artist
George Grosz, American, b. Berlin, Germany, 1893–1959
Provenance
Otto Schmalhausen
Galerie van Diemen, Berlin, by 1922
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, to 30 October 1954
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 30 October 1954-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Exhibition History
FORUM GALLERY AND E. V. THAW, New York. "George Grosz 1893-1959," 24 September-12 October 1963, cat. no. 6.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART. "German Expressionism after the Great War: the Second Generation," 9 October-31 December 1988. TOUR: FORT WORTH ART MUSEUM, Texas, 2 February-9 April 1989; KUNST MUSEUM DUSSELDORF, Germany, May-July; STAATLICHE GALERIE MORITZBURG, Halle, Germany, August- September.
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin, Germany. "George Grosz: Berlin-New York," 21 December 1994-17 April 1995, no. IX.4, p. 318, colorpl. p. 319. TOUR: KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN WESTFALEN, Dusseldorf, 6 May-30 July; STAATSGALERIE STUTTGART, September-December.
ZEITGEIST-GESELLSCHAFT, Berlin (organizer); MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, Berlin (venue). "The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century," 7 May-27 July 1997, no. 221, colorpl., n.p.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Kamakura, Japan. "George Grosz: Berlin-New York," 8 April-21 May 2000, no. I-3, p. 172, colorpl., p. 31. TOUR: ITAMI CITY MUSEUM OF ART, Itami, 10 June-30 July, ill. on leaflet, postcard; TOCHIGI PREFECTURAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Tochigi, 6 August-24 September, ill. on leaflet.
CASTELLO DI RIVOLI MUSEO D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Rivoli, Italy. "Faces in a Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism," 4 April - 10 July 2005. TOUR: WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London, 3 December 2004 - 27 February 2005.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.
Published References
FRIEDLAENDER, SALOMO [Myrona, pseud.]. George Grosz (Dresden: Rudolph Kaemmerer, 1922), ill. p. 88.
SCHISGALL, JANE. "The Arts in Two Societies: Some Implications for Student Education," Social Education (October 1983), ill. p. 411.
UNSIGNED. "Berlin," The Wilson Quarterly (Summer 1988), ill. p. 103.
WOLFF, JANET. Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture (Oxford: Polity, 1990), no. 4, ill. n.p.
JENTSCH, RALPH. George Grosz: The Berlin Years (Milan: Electra, 1997), no. 159, ill. p. 62.
REWALD, SABINE, and IAN BURUMA. George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye (New York: Metropolitan Museum and Art, 2022), color ill. p. 61.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 34, p. 59.
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Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.2282
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil and charcoal on canvas
Dimensions
24 × 15 7/8 in. (61 × 40.3 cm)
