Zigeunermusik

Grosz, George (1893-1959)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
1921
Height:
48.8 cm  (19 3/16 in.)
Width:
34.6 cm  (13 5/8 in.)
Sheet dimensions 60.8 x 49.8cm.
Technique / Medium:
lithography

Additional titles

Gypsy music

    Item location

  • Museum of Modern Art (New York)
    Prints and Illustrated Books[Museum inv. no.: 321.1940]Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Description

The scene appears to be a type of club or other such venue. Two men sit at a table. The table is strewn with glasses, a bottle in an ice bucket and other items of crockery / glassware. In the rear behind a drawn-back curtain are two musicians. The one in front, in tuxedo and tie, plays a violin. Behind him is another musician who is seated and appears to play a bass instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (Stylised)
Stringed instruments [3101] (Possibly a bass stringed instrument to the rear.)

Image URLs

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Notes

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RIdIM record id

3224