Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 604

Price Realized: $ 1,408
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GEORGE GROSZ
Früh um 5 Uhr!

Photolithograph on cream laid paper, 1920-21. 378x275 mm; 15x10 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right. Published by Malik-Verlag, Berlin. From Im Schatten. A very good impression with strong contrasts.

Grosz's dual view of Weimer Society, showing a group of wealthy, upper class businessmen, reveling with prostitutes in the lower portion of the composition, with a line of proletariat workers heading to the factories in the upper portion. Both scenes take place in the early morning hour, at around 5 O'clock, according to the artist's title. Dückers M IV 7.