Description
Dr. Huelsenbeck near the End is a study for George Grosz’s lithographic portfolio Ecce Homo, published in Berlin in 1922. Judged by some as obscene, Ecce Homo was censored by police officials. The title of this drawing derives from a novel—Dr. Billig near the End—written by the Dadaist Richard Huelsenbeck in 1921. The bald male figure in the foreground of this drawing represents the author Huelsenbeck.
Provenance
Sold by Erich Cohn, New York, to Klipstein and Kornfeld, Bern, Jan. 1962 [letter from Christine Stauffer, Galerie Kornfeld, of Jan. 8, 2004]; sold, Klipstein and Kornfeld, May 25–26, 1962, lot 414. Sold by Peter H. Deitsch (1924-1970), New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., Mar. 9, 1963 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998.
Accession Number
150804
Medium
Pen and brush and black ink on cream wove paper
Dimensions
47.7 × 37.5 cm (18 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
