Liebespaar

Details

OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Liebespaar
signed, dated and numbered 'DIX 23/302' (lower right); inscribed 'Liebespaar' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour, brush and India ink and coloured crayon on paper
25 3/8 x 19 5/8 in. (64.5 x 49.6 cm.)
Executed in 1923

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 6 June 1994, lot 63.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

Literature

B.S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die neue Sachlichkeit, 1918-1925, Ann Arbor, 1981, no. VI B 43, p. 144.
S. Pfäffle, Otto Dix, Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen, Stuttgart, 1991, no. A 1923/65, p. 186 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Berlin, Kongresshalle, Otto Dix: Ölgemälde 1913-1963, Aquarelle, Das graphische Werk, October 1963, no. 107.
Milan, Galleria del Levante, Otto Dix - personale retrospettiva, May - June 1964, no. 21 (illustrated).
Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forums, Geisterbahn und Glanzrevue, Otto Dix. Aquarelle und Gouachen, June - September 2007, no. 45, p. 93 (illustrated).
New York, Neue Galerie, Otto Dix, March - August 2010, no. 91, p. 246 (illustrated p. 137); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, September 2010 - January 2011.
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Otto Dix - The Evil Eye, February - May 2017, p. 149 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Liverpool, Tate, June - October 2017.

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