About this artwork
This evocative drawing exemplifies George Grosz’s interest in creating symbolic self-portraits. Here we see Grosz himself seated at a table, with a cityscape behind him and a “little man” before him. During World War I, he often inserted such figures into paintings, drawings, and prints as a means of self-parody and social commentary. In fact, one scholar has suggested that here the “little man” represents the artist in mannequin form and that therefore the work is a double self-portrait.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- George Grosz
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Title
- Little Man
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1917
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Medium
- Pen and brush and black ink on cream wove tracing paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: Grosz; inscribed lower right, in graphite: Fertig zum Abzug / für den Stein 1917 Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphit: 32 (encircled); lower right, in graphite: 807-A
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Dimensions
- 25 × 20.1 cm (9 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
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Reference Number
- 2002.678
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