"What a pleasant surprise to see this beautiful and important Grosz water color come to light!"  Consigned by a Pennsylvania and Maine family to the October 23 auction of International Fine Art, the watercolor had disappeared from sight when it was apparently purrchased in New York by a private collector. A particularly rare and large example (17 × 24 in. image (43.2 × 61.0 cm image), 18 1/2 × 25 1/2 in. paper (47.0 × 64.8 cm paper) in superb condition will be offered at the Barridoff Galleries sale with an estimate of $75,000 to $125,000.

Jentsch discusses the watercolor as follows, in part:  "It would not be Grosz to have produced just an ordinary restaurant scene. A closer look reveals what is really going on. First of all the ugliness of the three men is evident, while the girls are charming. Then there is the disparity of age. Besides the hideous faces of the men at the other table, it is their lascivious grin, like lurking animals sure of their catch, that unmasks them, while the young lady still seems to be self-assured. What most likely has taken place is that these men, executives of a firm, have invited these two girls, their secretaries or some sort of employees of the firm, with the intention to seduce them, a classic example, how people of higher rank misuse their power, shamelessly taking advantage of people depending on them. Grosz has captured the repellent scene still with fine humour. He started the work with watercolor, working wet into wet, using carefully the fine lines of pen and ink just in some places in order to outline faces, figures and objects in the composition."

Other important paintings in the sale include work by American artists  William Bradford, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Edwin Dickinson, Harry Hoffman, Walt Kuhn, Jules Pages, Jane Peterson, George Rodrigue. Robert Sewell, Anthony Thieme, Robert Vickrey, and Andrew Wyeth and European work by Edouard Leon Cortes, Jean Van Den Eeckhoudt, Raafael Blanco Merino, Carl Morgenstern, Antoiine Vollon, several fine Old Masters, and an outstanding Argentine oil by Severo Rodrigue Etchart.