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George Grosz
Blood Is the Best Sauce1919

Not on view
Political print in bold black ink on cream paper, two scenes: soldiers in violent combat above, two caricatured rotund men dining below, with text in French, German, and English along the bottom edge
Artist or Maker
George Grosz
Germany, also active United States, 1893-1959
Publisher
Der Malik Verlag
Germany, Berlin, 1917-
Title
Blood Is the Best Sauce
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1919
Medium
Photolithograph on G. F. Drey Könige laid paper
Dimensions
Image (image): 12 x 17 13/16 in. (30.48 x 45.24 cm) Sheet: 19 × 15 3/8 in. (48.26 × 39.05 cm) Frame: 7 1/2 × 9 1/16 × 9/16 in. (19 × 23 × 1.38 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.73g
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, and Sabine Eckmann. New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2015.