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Cape Cod Landscape
Details
George Grosz (1893-1959)
Cape Cod Landscape
signed 'Grosz' (lower right)
watercolor, pen and ink on paper
20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.
Cape Cod Landscape
signed 'Grosz' (lower right)
watercolor, pen and ink on paper
20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.
Provenance
Studio of the artist, circa 1940.
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1950.
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1950.
Literature
J. Barnitz, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, pp. 102-03, no. 49, illustrated.
Exhibited
Wallingford, Connecticut, The Choate School, January 3-February 1, 1965.
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