Otto Dix - Reading Woman - image-1

Lot 866 R

Otto Dix - Reading Woman

Auction 950 - overview Cologne
05.12.2009, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 45.000 € - 55.000 €
Result: 57.600 € (incl. premium)

Watercolour over soft pencil on heavy, textured watercolor paper embossed "S Progress" 49.3 x 39.8 cm, framed under glass. Signed, dated and numbered DIX 22/196 with pencil in lower right. - With minor traces of age professionally restored.

Pfäffle A 1922/14 (there "location unknown")

Portrayed is Martha Koch, also known as "Mutzli," later the artist's wife. According to Pfäffle the artist recorded this watercolour with title and work number in his sketchbook "Otto/Martha."

Provenance

Formerly Galerie Neher, Essen

Literature

Brigid S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die Neue Sachlichkeit 1918-1925, Michigan 1981, p. 141, V B nr. 5; cf. Karin Schick, Otto Dix, Hommage à Martha, exhib. cat. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005

Exhibitions

Munich 1970 (Galerie Klihm), Otto Dix, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierungen 1920-1927, cat. nr. 12 with ill.; Wien 1974 (Galerie Herzog im Pferdestall), Otto Dix, cat. nr. 70 with ill.; Bergen 1976 (Kunstforening), Kunst, Kamp, Kritikk, Tyvearenes sosialkritiske tyske kunst, nr. 3; Munich 1976 (BMW Galerie), Otto Dix, nr. 58