George Grosz
Port of still waters1926

Not on view

Printed book cover in navy blue type on mottled gray-blue paper, with French title 'Port d'Eaux-Mortes' in large bold capitals, publisher and date below

$Ink drawing with loose, expressive linework; a seated mustachioed man in the lower left holds papers near scattered playing cards, beside a standing nude female figure wearing a veil and a price tag reading "PRIX 300"; a hangman's noose dangles from above left against a fractured geometric background with a crescent moon; artist's signature at lower right.$

Black ink drawing of a café or bar storefront with a sign reading 'Au Beau Pat,' a standing figure in a doorway, a small round table with a bottle, a cat at lower center, and sailboats visible at left; loose, gestural linework.

Black ink print with loose, expressive line work depicting a crowd scene; a central figure plays an accordion while two men in caps sit nearby with glasses of drink, surrounded by densely sketched figures and floating musical notes.

Black ink print on cream paper; four figures seated around a table in the foreground, with a chaotic scene of tumbling figures visible through a window or frame above, rendered in angular, expressionist line work with a small signature at lower right.

Black ink lithograph with angular, expressive linework depicting four figures: a leering skeletal face at left, a woman in a cloche hat at center, a curly-haired figure in the foreground, and a sketchy figure at right, with geometric lines and a suspended circular lamp above.

Black ink print with energetic line work depicting a crowded interior scene; a bald figure plays piano in the foreground while multiple figures in hats crowd the background; handwritten text and fragmented signage visible at right.

Ink drawing of a crowd of figures in early 20th-century urban dress walking on a street, with expressive gestural linework, a lamppost with radiating light at upper right, and tightly grouped overlapping forms suggesting motion.

Pen and ink drawing of a crowd of figures gathered outside a large building at night, with a crescent moon above. The building facade shows rows of small barred windows and a flag on the rooftop. A door with directional arrow signs is visible at right. Loose, spare linework on cream paper.

Artist or Maker: George Grosz
Title: Port of still waters
Place Made: France, Paris
Date Made: 1926
Medium: Printed material and eight transfer lithographs or photolithographs on vellum Lafuma paper
Credit Line: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number: 83.1.77a-h
Classification: Books
Collecting Area: Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
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.
Dückers, Alexander. George Grosz: das druckgraphische Werk/Alexander Dückers. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Wien: Propyläen-Verlag, 1979.

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