Seid fruchtbar und mehret Euch - Die Religion muss dem Volke erhalten bleiben

Details

George Grosz (1893-1959)
Seid fruchtbar und mehret Euch - Die Religion muss dem Volke erhalten bleiben
signed 'GROSZ' (lower right)
brush and India ink on paper
25? x 20? in. (65 x 52.5 cm.)
Executed in 1922

Provenance

The artist's estate (with the Nachlass stamp and numbered '3.62.9' on the reverse), until 1959.
Acquired by the present owner before 1992.

Literature

G. Grosz, Das Gesicht der herrschenden Klasse & Abrechnung folgt!, Frankfurt, 1972 (illustrated p. 91).

Exhibited

Naples, Accademia di Belle Arti, Goya, Daumier, Grosz, Il trionfo dell'idiozia, Pregiudizi, follie e banalitá dell'esistenza europea, April - May 1992, no. 242 (illustrated p. 221); this exhibition later travelled to Rome, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo.
Sienna, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, La lente di Freud, Una galleria dell'inconscio, November 2008 - February 2009 (illustrated p. 319).

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Lot Essay

Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

This work is an illustration for p. 33 in the artist's book Abrechnung folgt! (Berlin, 1923).

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