A chained, thin artist paints hole-like abstract shapes on canvases while rats scurry nearby.

George Grosz

The Painter of the Hole

1947

Not on view

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/1835


Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 25 9/16 × 18 15/16 in. (64.9 × 48.1 cm)

Accession number
48.8

Credit line
Purchase

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/1835



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