Sale: 539 / Modern Art Day Sale, June 10. 2023 in Munich Lot 380

 

380
George Grosz
Eva Grosz, Um 1940.
Oil on canvas, laid on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,840
Sold:
€ 13,335 / $ 14,268

(incl. surcharge)
Eva Grosz. Um 1940.
Oil on canvas, laid on cardboard.
With the signature stamp in lower right. With signature and estate stamp on the reverse, and with the hand-written registration number "I A8 6". 60.9 x 45.5 cm (23.9 x 17.9 in).
[AM].
• The painting shows the artist's wife Eva Grosz, neé Peter.
• A characteristic, erotic-provocative nude from the 1940s.
• His works are in many renowned international museums like Tate Modern, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, or the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (with the stamp on the reverse).
Galerie Serge Sabarsky, New York.
Private collection New York.
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Christie's, New York, May 18, 1999, lot 19 (with illu.).
Dorotheum, Vienna, auction 2127, May 30, 2006, lot 41 (with illu.).




380
George Grosz
Eva Grosz, Um 1940.
Oil on canvas, laid on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,840
Sold:
€ 13,335 / $ 14,268

(incl. surcharge)