
Art Institute of Chicago
The Guilty One Remains Unknown
George Grosz · 1919
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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