The Guilty One Remains Unknown by George Grosz
Art Institute of Chicago

The Guilty One Remains Unknown

George Grosz · 1919

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Estate of the artist, Princeton, N.J., to at least 1963 [George Grosz Nachlass stamp on verso; London 1963]. Sold by E.V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Berlin, First International Dada Fair, 1920, cat. 5.
  • Uhr, Academie der Kunst, "George Grosz," October 7-December 30, 1962, cat. 184.
  • York, England, City Art Gallery, "George Grosz," 1962, cat. 92, by the Arts Council of Great Britain.
  • Arts Club of Chicago, "Drawings 1916/1966," February 28-March 11, 1966, cat. 46.
  • Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, "Tendencies of the Twenties," August 14-October 16, 1977.
  • Caracas, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Caracas, "El Espiritu Dada 1915-1925," November 14-February 15, 1981.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 192-193, cat. 89 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
  • Berlin, Berlinische Galerieim Gropiusbau, "Stationen der Moderne," September 25, 1988-January 6, 1989.
  • Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Ministerio de Cultura, "El Arte en Berlin Durante el Primer Tercio," February 13-April 10, 1989.
  • Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, "Dada," March 2-June 20, 2005.
  • Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art, "Dada," February 19-May 14, 2006, cat. 71, reprod. p. 117.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage," June 14-September 14, 2008.

Literature

Published references

  • Leon Bazalgette, George Grosz, l'Homme et l'Oeuvre (Paris, 1926.)
  • Hans Hess, George Grosz (New Haven, 1985), p. 88, no. 71 (ill.)
  • Roger Winter, ed., On Drawing, 2d ed. (Collegiate Press, 1997).
  • Winfried Nerdinger, Perspektiven Der Kunst (Munich, 1984).
  • Maria Makela, “‘A Clear and Simple Style:’ Tradition and Typology in New Objectivity,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 28, 1 (2002), pp. 38-51, fig. 4.
  • Dietmar Elger, Dadaism (Taschen, 2004).
  • Marc Dachy, Archives Dada: Chronique (Paris, 2005).

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