Lot 3258 - A205 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 23. June 2023, 04.30 PM
GEORGE GROSZ
(1893 Berlin 1959)
Dancing. 1926.
Ink on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: GROSZ 26. Titled lower centre: Dancing.
With the estate stamp on the reverse.
With the estate stamp on the reverse.
60 × 46 cm.
Provenance:
- Richard A. Cohn, New York.
- Auction Christie's, Amsterdam, 5.6.1996, lot 247.
- Swiss private collection, acquired at the above auction.
The present work is a study for the 1928 painting 'Ballsaal'. The oil-work was owned by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin until it was removed from the museum in 1937 as part of the 'confiscation of degenerate art'. Since then it has been presumed lost.
CHF 9 000 / 12 000 | (€ 9 280 / 12 370)
Sold for CHF 17 380 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.