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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.40
People
George Grosz, American (Berlin, Germany 1893 - 1959 Berlin, Germany)
Title
Blind Beggar
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1930
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/353379

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
85.1 x 63.5 cm (33 1/2 x 25 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., in brown ink: Grosz 30 Berlin
  • (not assigned): l.l., in graphite: No. 5 / illegible text

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist; sold (Vera Lazuk Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor); to Richard and Frances Powers; by bequest; to Catherine Corum, Elizabeth Powers, Jane de Colgyll and Rebecca Scott, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2015.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Given in loving memory of Richard Mather Powers and Frances Sutton Powers, a student of George Grosz, by their daughters
Copyright
© Estate of George Grosz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.40
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George Grosz on Long Island, exh. cat., The Heckscher Museum of Art and The Huntington Township Art League (Huntington, Long Island, 1959), p. 5, cat. 44, ill. (b/w)
  • Sabine Rewald, George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2022), pp. 139, 145, cat. no. 50, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • George Grosz on Long Island, The Heckscher Museum of Art, 11/07/1959 - 12/06/1959
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/05/2016 - 03/29/2017

Verification Level

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