THE COLLECTION
George Grosz (American, born Germany. 1893–1959)
Plate 75 from Ecce Homo
- Date:
- 1922-1923 (reproduced drawings and watercolors executed 1915-22)
- Medium:
- Illustrated book with one hundred offset lithographs
- Dimensions:
- page (each approx.): 13 11/16 x 9 13/16" (34.8 x 25 cm); overall: 14 x 10 5/16 x 1 5/16" (35.5 x 26.2 x 3.3 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, smooth, wove.
- Publisher:
- Malik-Verlag, Berlin
- Printer:
- Dr. Selle & Co. A.G., Berlin
- Edition:
- approx. 10,000 in 5 editions (Deluxe portfolio edition A: 50, numbered I-L, including all 100 reproductions of watercolors and drawings, each print signed, issued loose in a silk-covered portfolio box; Deluxe portfolio edition B I: 100, numbered 1-100, including the 16 reproductions of watercolors only, each print signed, issued loose in a half-parchment portfolio; Regular portfolio edition B II: number unknown, including the 16 reproductions of watercolors only, unsigned, issued loose in a "Bütten"-paper covered portfolio; Regular book edition C: approx. 6,000-8,000, including all 100 reproductions of watercolors and drawings, unsigned, issued in a "Bütten"-covered board binding [this ex.]: Regular book edition D: number unknown, including the 84 reproductions of drawings only, unsigned, issued in a chromo board binding)
- Credit Line:
- The Louis E. Stern Collection
- Copyright:
- © 2016 Estate of George Grosz
- Reference:
- Dückers S1, 1-84. Rifkind 952 1-84. Jentsch 141.
- MoMA Number:
- 854.1964.75