(Berlin 1893–1959)
Blind Cripple, 1923, signed, dated Grosz 23, titled Cripple (approx. from another hand), watercolor, black and colored charcoal, pencil on wove paper, 64.7 x 52.3 cm, framed

Certificate:
Ralph Jentsch, Berlin/Rome 16. April 2020
The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by George Grosz

Provenance:
Studio of the artist, Berlin (1923)
Galerie Felchtheim, Düsseldorf (1930)
Associated American Artists Gallery, New York
Estate Elsbeth Bothe, Baltimore, USA
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
European Private Collection - acquired by the previous owner in 2013

Exhibited/Exhibition catalogue:
Galerie Felchtheim Düsseldorf, October 1930, George Grosz, Ölgemälde und Aquarelle, cat. no. 41
Musée Félicien Rops, George Grosz, 1893–1959. Un Grand Non, Grosz le Visionnaire, 21.9.2013 – 5.1.2014, cat. no. 43 (illu. p. 191 and 284)
Musée du Temps, Besancon, 6.12.2014 – 15.3.2015, p. 79; p.110, cat. no. 29
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knocke, Raw War, 5.12.201 5–18.1.2016, p. 74f (illu)
Kaserne Dossin, Malines/Mecheln, The art of War, 22.10.2017 – 7.1.2018, p. 141 (illu)

The work “Blind Cripple” by George Grosz was created in the Golden Twenties of the Weimar Republic. It was a time when the new art movement called New Objectivity was reacting to the social and political grievances of the country. Artists began to capture these challenges visually. This is also how Grosz described his observations of everyday life: “When I began to experience the world, I soon discovered that the colourfulness, the glamour, above all, my fellow human beings were not very good.” (Presler, G.: Glanz und Elend der 20er Jahre. Die Malerei der Neuen Sachlichkeit, Cologne 1992, p. 52.)