Figures Around the TableFigures Around the Tablecirca 1927gouache on paper41 x 41 cm (16 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)framed dimensions: 67 x 67 cm (26 3/8 x 26 3/8 in.)signed lower left and upper leftPROVENANCEErich Cohn CollectionThence by descent in the family to the present ownerLOT NOTESThe present lot comes from the estate of Erich Cohn, a prolific patron and collector of German expressionism. Born in 1890 in Filehne (present-day Poland), Mr. Cohn emigrated to the United States before the outbreak of the Second World War, where in 1937 he became president of the noodle and matzoh manufactory A. Goodman & Sons. Art from the Erich Cohn Collection, especially by Kleinschmidt, Grosz, and Kollwitz, is held at the MoMA, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Harvard Art Museums and the Carnegie Museum of Art. The collection also included several artworks by Polish-Jewish modernist Leopold Gottlieb.