Otto Dix (1891-1969)

Kitty

Details

Otto Dix (1891-1969)
Kitty
signed, numbered and inscribed 'Dix 24/400 Kitty' (lower left)
watercolor on Japan paper
20 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. (51 x 39 cm.)
Painted in 1924

Provenance

Dr. Josef Haubrich, Cologne (circa 1940-1950).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

The Artist's wife's handlist, August 1924 (titled Dix No. 400).
S. Pfaffle, Otto Dix Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen, Stuttgart, 1991, p. 202, no. A 1924/32.

Exhibited

Munich, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Otto Dix, 1926, no. 30.
Cologne, Museum Ludwig (on loan).

Lot Essay

Otto Dix often painted portraits in which the sitter cannot be identified and a great number of his female models remain unknown. When the sitter is named, as in the present work, the watercolors were generally not preparatory studies for oil paintings but finished portraits in their own right.

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