NEGERTANZ 1917
(Negro dance)
Pen and ink drawing on chamois wove paper, 27.8 x 20.3 cm
Signed Grosz in pencil and inscribed in the lower left corner 117. Negertanz, titled Neger-tanz by the artist in pen and ink lower right. Signed again and dedicated lower right To Ernest Fiene to remember his friend George Grosz  May 59.
Provenance: Artist’s studio, Berlin-Südende, 1917; Private Collection, New York.
Literature:
Schall und Rauch, vol. 1, 1920, issue 3, p. 3;
Der Querschnitt, vol. IX, issue 7, end of July 1929,
p. 461;
Peter-Klaus Schuster (ed.): George Grosz. Berlin – New York