Sale: 409 / Modern Art and Sidelines of the German Avantgarde, Dec. 06. 2013 in Munich button next Lot 80

 

80
George Grosz
Crime doesnt´t pay - The Case of the own Club, 1932.
Collage
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,300
Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 25,424

(incl. surcharge)
Crime doesnt´t pay - The Case of the own Club. 1932.
Collage, partly worked over in colors.
Lower right with collaged name, date, title and with inscription "done 1932 for Vanity fair". On light board. 54 x 44 cm (21,2 x 17,3 in), size of sheet.

Accompanied by a certificate issued by Ralph Jentsch, Rome, from 4 November, 2013. The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné of works on paper.

PROVENANCE: Made in New York 1932.
Artist's studio, Berlin (1932).
Private collection.
Holdings Collection, Grenoble.
Camillos Kouros Gallery, New York.
Private collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: "Vanity Fair", vol. 41, no. 3, November 1933, illustration for "Bark, the Morish Slave" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, p. 34 (there with title "Crime Never Pays").

[JS].




80
George Grosz
Crime doesnt´t pay - The Case of the own Club, 1932.
Collage
Estimate:
€ 10,000 / $ 11,300
Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 25,424

(incl. surcharge)

 


Munich
Headquarters
Joseph-Wild-Str. 18
81829 Munich
Phone: +49 89 55 244-0
Fax: +49 89 55 244-177
info@kettererkunst.de
Hamburg
Louisa von Saucken / Christoph Calaminus
Holstenwall 5
20355 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 37 49 61-0
Fax: +49 40 37 49 61-66
infohamburg@kettererkunst.de
Berlin
Dr. Simone Wiechers / Nane Schlage
Fasanenstr. 70
10719 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 88 67 53-63
Fax: +49 30 88 67 56-43
infoberlin@kettererkunst.de
Cologne
Cordula Lichtenberg
Gertrudenstraße 24-28
50667 Cologne
Phone: +49 221 510 908-15
infokoeln@kettererkunst.de
Baden-Württemberg
Hessen
Rhineland-Palatinate

Miriam Heß
Phone: +49 62 21 58 80-038
Fax: +49 62 21 58 80-595
infoheidelberg@kettererkunst.de
Never miss an auction again!
We will inform you in time.

 
Subscribe to the newsletter now >

© 2025 Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG Privacy policy