Otto Dix - Die Verächter des Todes - image-1

Lot 395 D

Otto Dix - Die Verächter des Todes

Auction 1110 - overview Cologne
01.06.2018, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

Otto Dix

Die Verächter des Todes
1922

Etching on copperplate printing paper 34.6 x 27.5 cm (49.5 x 39.7 cm) Framed under glass. Signed, dated, numbered, and titled. Proof 3/50. Sheet 1 of the portfolio "Zirkus", published by the artist in 1922. - Some minor foxing, two minor crease marks in right margin.

The etching depicts a motive from the sequence of watercolours with representations from the circus dating 1922 ("Verächter des Todes /Zwei Artisten", Otto Dix Estate, cf. exhib. cat. Düsseldorf/ Liverpool, 2017, op. cit., cat. no.160 with colour illus.)

Catalogue Raisonné

Karsch 32

Provenance

Formerly collection Robert Görlinger (1888-1954), Cologne; Succession Görlinger

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf/ Liverpool (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen/ Tate Liverpool), Otto Dix - Der böse Blick, cat. no. 45 with colour illus. (this exemplar)