Jun 12, 2014 - Sale 2354

Sale 2354 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
GEORGE GROSZ
Self-Portrait as the Old Commodore.

Oil on card stock, 1955. 153x112 mm; 6x4 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto, and titled in oil, lower center recto. Signed, dated "May 12, 1958", inscribed "The cottage, Huntington" and dedicated to Baltimore Judge Elsbeth Levy Bothe in pen and black ink, verso; annotated extensively in pencil, verso.

A gift from the artist to Judge Elsbeth Levy Bothe, 1958; acquired from the Bothe estate by the current owner, 2013. "The cottage" refers to Grosz's home in Huntington, New York, where Judge Bothe often visited.