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'At a Café' (before 1936)

George Grosz

brush drawing in black ink, with pen and black ink

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

'At a Café' (before 1936)

© DACS 2023 Photo credit: The Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Pen and black ink

Physical Object Description:

'At a Café'; man smoking and woman applying make-up, both seated at a table. Brush drawing in black ink, with pen and black ink. Signed in pencil, lower right, and inscribed in German, lower left.

Technique:

Drawn

Dimensions:

58.5 x 45.6 cm

Accession Number:

1943,0710.38

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1943

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Purchased from the artist by Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937), Berlin and London; by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 1936; on loan to Charles Robert Chisman (1874-1955), 1938; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1943

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