Female Nude, Cape Cod
1941
George Grosz's 'Female Nude, Cape Cod' (1941) combines watercolor, gouache, and ink on paper to create an expressive figurative work. Created during the artist's American exile, the work reflects Grosz's continued engagement with the human form and landscape. The medium combination allows for dynamic contrasts between transparency and opacity.
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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March 9, 2022
Spotted works by George Grosz
Artists in conversation
Egon Schiele
Austrian · b. 1890
Schiele similarly combined ink linework with expressive watercolor washes to depict the nude figure with raw psychological intensity, sharing Grosz's bold contour work and earthy tonal palette in figurative studies on paper.
Emil Nolde
German · b. 1867
Nolde worked extensively in watercolor and gouache with a German Expressionist sensibility, producing figurative and landscape works that share the same dynamic contrast between transparent washes and opaque passages seen in this Cape Cod piece.
Käthe Kollwitz
German · b. 1867
Kollwitz brought a similarly bold and emotionally charged approach to figurative works on paper, using strong gestural marks and earthy tones to render the human form with expressive weight that closely parallels Grosz's treatment of the nude figure.
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