Otto Dix - Erich Heckel - Skizze zum Gemälde - image-1

Lot 375 D

Otto Dix - Erich Heckel - Skizze zum Gemälde

Auction 1070 - overview Cologne
03.06.2016, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

Otto Dix

Erich Heckel - Skizze zum Gemälde
1947

Charcoal on heavy ivory-coloured paper 41.9 x 29.6 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'DIX' in pencil lower right. Dated '1947' and monogrammed with artist's mark in charcoal upper centre. - Occasional minor foxing.

This is a sketch for the oil painting "Bildnis des Malers Erich Heckel" (Löffler 1947/6) that was produced in the same year. Here, Dix portrayed his artist colleague who had also been living in Hemmenhofen since 1944.

Catalogue Raisonné

Lorenz VI SW 5.1.1

Provenance

Private collection, Stuttgart

Exhibitions

Frankfurt am Main 1980 (Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst), Otto Dix. Ölbilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, cat. no. 70