In der Petite Chaumière, Monmartre (In the Little Cottage, Montmartre), 1924

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with watercolor on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.15 × 62.87 cm (18 9/16 × 24 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Francis Biddle)

Accession Number

2015.19.955

Artists / Makers

George Grosz (artist) American, born Germany, 1893 - 1959

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Grosz / Paris 1924; lower left edge in graphite: Paris LX / W / No. 19 in der petite chaumière Paris Montmartre; lower right edge in graphite: BF194; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 45/6/34; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: FW

Marks and Labels

blindstamped along upper edge: n v Vidalon-Les-Annonay A Lavis Ancne. Manufre. Canson & Montgolfier; stamped lower right in red ink: Made in Germany

Provenance

(Galerie Martin Wasservogel, Berlin, Germany, 1926); Francis Biddle, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1959; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Biddle, Francis
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Wasservogel, Martin

Exhibition History

1926: George Grosz, Galerie Martin Wasservogel, Berlin, Germany, 1926, no. 19

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 62-64, no. 36, repro

Bibliography

1974: Hess, Hans. George Grosz. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974, p. 124.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 186, no. 1259.