"The blessing of heaven is visibly upon me." ("Gottes sichtbarer Segen ist bei mir.")

1922

George Grosz

Associated Names
George Grosz

Artist, American, born Germany, 1893 - 1959

The drawing shows a group of people in an indoor setting during a festive occasion. A woman is seated at a piano, a full-figured woman stands beside her, and a man sits smoking a cigar. There is a smaller figure, likely a child, holding a jug and cups. Various household items are visible, such as a chair with a stuffed coat, a framed image, and a small table with scattered objects. The background features simple lines suggesting an intimate indoor gathering.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 45.72 × 36.67 cm (18 × 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.10.298

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Duckers 1979, no. MV 6

  • Series Title

    The Robbers (Die Räuber)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Claude Schaefer [1913-2010], Montevideo, Uruguay; sold 1950 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; [1] gift 1950/1951 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1] In Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 56-57, Rosenwald described being approached by a young man in South America who offered to sell his father’s collection of prints that he had brought with him from Germany. Rosenwald gives the year as 1951, but his appointment books confirm that it was actually 1950 - he left for Buenos Aires on 9 February 1950 and returned on 20 March 1950 (Library of Congress, Rosenwald Papers, Box 75). Rosenwald writes that he bought the entire collection of some 1100 prints and drawings, but as they had already been scheduled to be sent to Europe they came to the United States via Antwerp, arriving in the US in late April 1950. Rosenwald decided to keep about a quarter of the collection, destined for the National Gallery of Art, and donate the remainder to other institutions. The inventory log of Alverthorpe indicates that just over 300 works were accessioned there in May of 1950, inventory numbers 50.260-50.530, acquired from Claude Schaefer (Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, RG 45A1, Rosenwald Papers, Box 41).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Duckers, Alexander. George Grosz: Das druckgraphische Werk. Frankfurt am Main: Propylaen Verlag, 1979, no. MV 6.

Wikidata ID

Q65225211

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