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Lot 330
  • 330

Otto Dix

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Otto Dix
  • Landschaft mit Gasometer (Landscape with Gasometer)
  • signed Dix and inscribed 326/24 (upper left), titled and indistinctly dedicated on the reverse
  • watercolour and brush and ink on paper
  • 29.9 by 39.6cm., 11 3/4 by 15 5/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Neher, Essen
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988

Exhibited

Munich, Galerie Klihm, Otto Dix, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen, 1920-1927, 1970, no. 21
Freiburg, Augustinermuseum, Otto Dix, 1971, no. 33
Vienna, Galerie Herzog im Pferdestalle, Otto Dix, 1974, no. 90
Esslingen, Kunstgalerie, Otto Dix, 1976, no. 21
Lisbon, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Otto Dix, 1977, no. 13

Literature

Brigid S. Barton, Otto Dix und Die Neue Sachlichkeit, 1918-1925, Michigan, 1981, referenced p. 147 
Suse Pfäffle, Otto Dix, Werkverzeichnis de Aquarelle und Gouachen, Stuttgart, 1991, no. A 1924/7, illustrated pp. 82 & 924

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount at the upper two corners and floating in the mount. The sheet is very slightly undulated in places and there is some light medium rubbing to the lower half of the left edge. There are some paper and glue remnants to the verso from previous mounting. Otherwise, this work is in overall very good conditon. Colours: Overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue.
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