The Secret Emperor (The Industrialist Hugo Stinnes)

Inscription: Signed (lower right, in graphite): Grosz; inscribed (lower left, in graphite): No / 8. [encircled] 2 - 119 - 7

Marking: Stamped and inscribed (verso, lower center, in relief printed ink and pen and black ink): George Grosz [illegible] / 2 119 7

the artist, Berlin and Huntington, N.Y. (1920–d. 1959; his estate, from 1959); [Galerie Daniel Keel, Zurich, probably by 1964–at least 1966]; (sale, Sotheby's, London, October 22, 2002, no. 218, sold to MMA)

Zürich. Galerie Daniel Keel. "George Grosz: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen," January 20–February 22, 1964, no catalogue [probably this picture].

Turin. Galleria d'arte moderna L'Approdo. "Proposta per una collezione d'arte moderna di grandi maestri stranieri," February 3–March 10, 1966, no. 40 (as "Der heimliche Kaiser").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Max Beckmann's 'Hell'," May 9–August 31, 2003, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919–33)," July 2–October 31, 2004, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Made in Germany," May 22–October 14, 2007, no catalogue.

New York. Neue Galerie. "Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933," October 1, 2015–January 4, 2016, no. 18.

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "Glitzer und Gift der Zwanzigerjahre. George Grosz in Berlin," November 18, 2022–February 26, 2023, no. 38.

George Grosz. Abrechnung Folgt! 57 politische Zeichnungen. Berlin, 1923, ill. p. 41, calls it "Stinnes und sein Präsident".

Beth Irwin Lewis. George Grosz: Art and Politics in the Weimar Republic. Madison, 1971, pp. 108, 157–58, fig. 57, calls it "Stinnes and his President".

Sabine Rewald in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 2002–2003." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 61 (Fall 2003), p. 47, ill.

Sabine T. Kriebel. Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield. Berkeley, 2014, pp. 171–73, 321, fig. 75.

Peter Chametzky. "From Anti-Nazi Postcards to Anti-Trump Social Media: Laughter as Resistance, Opposition, or Cold Comfort?" Art and Resistance in Germany. Ed. Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Elizabeth Otto. New York, 2019, p. 204.

Sabine Rewald. George Grosz in Berlin: The Relentless Eye. Exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. New York, 2022, pp. 120–21, 172 n. 32, no. 38, ill. p. 128 (color).