George Grosz *

(Berlin 1893–1959)
Female nude with summer hat, 1940, signed, inscribed on the stretcher, oil and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas, 59 x 43.5 cm, framed
This work is registered in the George Grosz Estate, Berlin and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity issued by Ralph Jentsch.
The work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of works on paper by George Grosz

This work is also accompanied by a critical text written by Ralph Jentsch

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate issued by Dr. Marzio Cortinovis

Provenance:
Studio of the artist, Douglaston, Long Island (NY), 1940
George Grosz Estate, 1959
European Private Collection

Note:
It was above all in the years 1937 to 1941 that Grosz partly concentrated his work on the female nude and erotic subjects again, executing them in pencil, pen and ink, charcoal and mixed media. As mostly always his wife Eva, like in this very work, posed for him in the studio but also in nature, mostly in Cape Cod, the fashionable summer resort Grosz started to attend in 1938, spending there two or three months every year, where also this very work was executed in 1940.