About the Artwork
Man and Death
1932
George Grosz
1893-1959
German
Unknown
Watercolor
Image: 14 1/2 × 18 1/2 inches (36.8 × 47 cm) Sheet: 15 3/8 × 19 5/8 inches (39.1 × 49.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Sophie Pearlstein
2019.207
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Markings
Signed, in pen and ink, in lower right corner: Grosz
Inscribed, in graphite, lower right: [illegible] Inscribed, in graphite, on verso, lower left: Grosz Berlin 1932 Inscribed, in graphite, on verso, lower left: Lu No 1108 Inscribed, in black pen and innk, on verso, lower left: 1 47 7 [handwritten in stamp]
Stamp, on verso, in light brown ink: George Grosz Nachlaas
Provenance
Sophie Pearlstein (Southfield, Michigan, USA)
2020-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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George Grosz, Man and Death, 1932, watercolor. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Sophie Pearlstein, 2019.207.
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