May 09, 2013 - Sale 2313

Sale 2313 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GROSZ, GEORGE. Gedichte und Gesänge [1916-1917]. 6 illustrations in deep green ink after drawings by Grosz. 8vo, original wrappers illustrated by Grosz, browned and brittle, spine defective; endpapers foxed and browned, contents clean. Litomyšl Czechoslovakia: J. Portman, 1932

Additional Details

signed and numbered b21 by grosz of only 33 copies on Pannekoek Holland after only 3 on Japan (36 the total edition). additionally inscribed and signed by grosz to his friend, the american art critic and author thomas craven: "To Thomas Craven / [these] songs of a very romantic period - given in friendship George Grosz N.Y. July `33." A very scarce work with only five institutional copies recorded.