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拍品专文
Ralph Jentsch has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Throughout his career as an artist, Grosz always had a strong liking of erotic subjects. This started as early as 1912 but it was above all in the years 1937 to 1941 that Grosz concentrated his work on the female nude and erotic subjects again. In most cases his wife Eva posed for him in the studio but also in nature, usually in Cape Cod, the fashionable summer resort Grosz started to attend in 1939, spending there two or three months every year.
The expression here on Eva’s face reflects the concentration with which the artist is executing the picture. Like a sculptor, Grosz models the body in every detail, emphasizing the voluptuous beauty of the nude woman. The vague details of the surroundings are high contrast to the carefully executed figure of the model that in her way dominates the picture.
It was only after Grosz had moved to the United states in 1933 that he started working with mixed media and oil on paper. He only used this painting technique for the many female nudes and highly erotic subjects he started to paint in 1939 and continued to so this only for a few years. The work Sitting Female Nude / Eva belongs to this group that within the oeuvre of the artist builds a special work complex of its own kind and importance.
-Ralph Jentsch (Quoted and abridged from his essay on the certificate accompanying this work)
Throughout his career as an artist, Grosz always had a strong liking of erotic subjects. This started as early as 1912 but it was above all in the years 1937 to 1941 that Grosz concentrated his work on the female nude and erotic subjects again. In most cases his wife Eva posed for him in the studio but also in nature, usually in Cape Cod, the fashionable summer resort Grosz started to attend in 1939, spending there two or three months every year.
The expression here on Eva’s face reflects the concentration with which the artist is executing the picture. Like a sculptor, Grosz models the body in every detail, emphasizing the voluptuous beauty of the nude woman. The vague details of the surroundings are high contrast to the carefully executed figure of the model that in her way dominates the picture.
It was only after Grosz had moved to the United states in 1933 that he started working with mixed media and oil on paper. He only used this painting technique for the many female nudes and highly erotic subjects he started to paint in 1939 and continued to so this only for a few years. The work Sitting Female Nude / Eva belongs to this group that within the oeuvre of the artist builds a special work complex of its own kind and importance.
-Ralph Jentsch (Quoted and abridged from his essay on the certificate accompanying this work)