Right Is with the Strongest

between 1921 and 1922

George Grosz, Artist Hermann Birkholz, Printer Malik-Verlag, Publisher

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Title Right Is with the Strongest

Artwork Date between 1921 and 1922

Makers George Grosz (Artist) German, 1893-1959 Hermann Birkholz (Printer) German Malik-Verlag (Publisher) German

Medium Photolithograph printed in black ink on wove paper

Dimensions Image: 19 3/4 × 14 1/4 inches (50.2 × 36.2 cm) Sheet: 26 3/8 × 20 1/8 inches (67 × 51.1 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F81.435

Markings

Signed Signed, in pencil, lower right: GROSZ

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, just below image: 9 Inscribed, lower left, lower: GROSZ THE LABOURER 46-133 CN...LX B30 [illegible] Inscribed, verso, lower right, 51/41.

Marks Watermark, lower center: J W ZANDERS 1920

Provenance

Garelick's Gallery (Birmingham, Michigan, USA).
after July 1959, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Dueckers, A. George Grosz Das Druckgraphische Werk. Frankfurt am Main, 1979, pp. 196-197, 200, no. 9, p. 65 (ill.).

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George Grosz, Right Is with the Strongest, between 1921 and 1922, photolithograph printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, F81.435.