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Zwei Frauen
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George Grosz (1893-1959)
Zwei Frauen
signed, dated, stamped and numbered 'Grosz 1929 George Grosz Nachlass 1-A1-1' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
86 5/8 x 45¼ in. (220 x 114.8 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Zwei Frauen
signed, dated, stamped and numbered 'Grosz 1929 George Grosz Nachlass 1-A1-1' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
86 5/8 x 45¼ in. (220 x 114.8 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer AG, Wichtrach.
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg.
Galerie Haas AG, Zürich.
The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer AG, Wichtrach.
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg.
Galerie Haas AG, Zürich.
The Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, by whom acquired from the above.
Exhibited
New York, Heckscher Museum, George Grosz, Works in oil, July - September 1977.
Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, George Grosz, September 1978 - January 1979.
Mailand Palazzo Reale, George Grosz, Gli Anni di Berlino, May - July 1985, no. 19 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to New York, Serge Sabarasky, Vienna Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paris, Hôtel de Ville, Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle, Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft.
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, December 1994, no. IX.47 (illustrated p. 363); this exhibition later travelled to Düsseldorf, Kunstamlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
New York, Associated American Artists, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, December 1995 - January 1996, no. 8.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, George Grosz, The Berlin Years, March - May 1997; this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Valencia, Ivam Centre Julio Gonzáles, Realismo Mágico Franz Roh y la Pintura Europea 1917-1936, June - August 1997 (illustrated p. 104); this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Fundación Caja de Madrid, Atlántico, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderna.
Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Grosz, Berlin - New York, April - September 2000, p. 42 (illustrated nos. 1-13); this exhibition later travelled to Itami and Tochigi.
Bern, Galerie Henza & Kettereer, George Grosz. Der Akt 1912-1948, May - September 2006, no. 77 (illustrated p. 91).
Rome, Villa Medici, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, May - July
2007, no. 229.
Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, George Grosz, September 1978 - January 1979.
Mailand Palazzo Reale, George Grosz, Gli Anni di Berlino, May - July 1985, no. 19 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to New York, Serge Sabarasky, Vienna Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Paris, Hôtel de Ville, Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle, Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft.
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, December 1994, no. IX.47 (illustrated p. 363); this exhibition later travelled to Düsseldorf, Kunstamlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
New York, Associated American Artists, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, December 1995 - January 1996, no. 8.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, George Grosz, The Berlin Years, March - May 1997; this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Valencia, Ivam Centre Julio Gonzáles, Realismo Mágico Franz Roh y la Pintura Europea 1917-1936, June - August 1997 (illustrated p. 104); this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Fundación Caja de Madrid, Atlántico, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderna.
Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Georges Grosz, Berlin - New York, April - September 2000, p. 42 (illustrated nos. 1-13); this exhibition later travelled to Itami and Tochigi.
Bern, Galerie Henza & Kettereer, George Grosz. Der Akt 1912-1948, May - September 2006, no. 77 (illustrated p. 91).
Rome, Villa Medici, George Grosz, Berlin - New York, May - July
2007, no. 229.
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