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Property from an Important Private Family Collection, Germany

Otto Dix

Sphinx

This lot has been withdrawn

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Property from an Important Private Family Collection, Germany

Otto Dix

1891 - 1969

Sphinx


signed DIX and dated 25. (lower right); titled on the reverse

watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper

50.5 by 52.2cm., 19⅞ by 20½in.

Framed: 83 by 87cm., 32¾ by 34¼in.

Executed in 1925. 

This Lot has been withdrawn from the sale.

Käthe König, Dresden (a gift from the artist in 1928)

Horst Kempe, Dresden (acquired from the above circa 1968)

Freia Kempe, Dresden (a gift from the above in 1984)

A gift from the above to the present owner in 2007

Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Otto Dix, 1985, no. 321, illustrated in the catalogue
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Otto Dix, zum 100. Geburstag, 1991
Hamburg, Bucerius Kunstforum, Geisterbahn und Glanzrevue. Otto Dix. Aquarelle und Gouachen, 2007, no. 71, illustrated in colour in the catalogue 
Letter from Katharina König to Suse Pfäffle, 15th August 1987
Suse Pfäffle, Otto Dix, Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen, Stuttgart, 1991, no. A 1925/22, illustrated p. 205