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George Grosz
The World Made Safe for Democracycirca 1919

Not on view
Black ink drawing on cream paper, caricatured uniformed figure with cigarette towering over three shackled figures, sparse building and bare trees in background

George Grosz, The World Made Safe for Democracy, circa 1919, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
George Grosz
Title
The World Made Safe for Democracy
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
circa 1919
Medium
Black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
22 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (56.2 x 38.42 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.333
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Provenance

The artist (1893-1959). [Forum Gallery, New York]; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York]; purchased 13-14 December 1973 (lot 113) by Robert Gore Rifkind (1928-2019), Beverly Hills; given in 1982 to LACMA.


Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.
Copyright
© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York