Signed & Framed Gunther Grass Lithograph + Book

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Ancient / Ethnographic / Americana

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Jul 11, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Gunter Grass (German, 1927-2015), "Blick in die toskanische Lanschaft II" (View into the Tuscan Countryside) (ca. 2000). Lithograph in colors. Numbered 20/150 in pencil on lower left. Signed in pencil on lower right. A tranquil landscape depicting a red-roofed house on a hill amidst the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside. Hand-signed and numbered. Professionally framed in a lovely green-painted wood frame behind glass. Label from the Vetter Kunst Galerie on the verso. Also included is Gunter Grass' novel entitled "My Century" (1999) - a collection of interlinked stories that celebrate the 20th century. Size: 9.5" L x 13.5" W (24.1 cm x 34.3 cm); 17.125" L x 21" W (43.5 cm x 53.3 cm) framed
  
  Gunter Grass was a 1999 Nobel Prize winner who was best known for his first novel entitled, "The Tin Drum" (1959). However, in addition to being a writer, Gunter was also an accomplished visual artist who worked in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and graphic design. "With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper,” Grass told the Paris Review in a 1992 interview. “It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing."
  
  According to an ArtNews article following his death, Gunter studied sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf prior to becoming a writer. Eventually he also became a founding member of Group 47, a literary association whose mission was to "inform the German public about democracy in the wake of the Hitler era". Near the end of his life, he returned to visual art. In the Paris Review, Elizabeth Gaffney wrote, "Günter Grass has achieved a very rare thing in contemporary arts and letters, earning both critical respect and commercial success in every genre and artistic medium he has taken up."
  
  The ArtNews article continues, "Apart from creating his own work, the novelist and artist was also an inspiration to other visual artists. Swiss-German artist Dieter Roth used pages from The Tin Drum in one of his “Literaturewurst” sculptures, which he began creating in the 1960s. The main subject of the famed novel, the young drummer boy, was further referenced by Maurizio Cattelan (see Take a Peek at Art World Prankster Maurizio Cattelan’s Documentary) in his 2003 Untitled sculpture of a young boy playing a drum, which is in the Menil Collection and has been interpreted by some as a call to arms."
  
  Provenance: private Long Island, New York, USA collection
  
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  Condition

  Professionally framed in a lovely green-painted wood frame behind glass. Label from the Vetter Kunst Galerie on the verso. Lithograph has not been examined outside of the frame but appears to be in excellent condition. Wired for suspension.
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