About This Artwork
George Grosz
American, born Germany, 1893-1959
Cafe Neptune, 1919/20
Watercolor and pen and brush and black ink, with touches of graphite, on cream wove paper
500 x 387 mm
Signed lower right: "Grosz"
Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, 1954.190
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "German Art of the Twentieth Century," October 1-December 8, 1957, p. 84, cat. by Werner Haftmann, et. al..
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, "George Grosz," October 7- December 30, 1962, cat. 62.
York, England, City Art Gallery, "George Grosz," 1964, cat. 27, cat. by the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "In the Mind's Eye: German Realism," 1980-1981; traveled to Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," November 28, 1984-January 27, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Imaging the Body: From Fragment to Total Display," January 30-April 23, 1992.
Ownership History
Sold by the Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1954.