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Otto Dix
Liebespaar, 1928.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,500 Sold:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,500 (incl. surcharge)
269
Otto Dix
Liebespaar, 1928.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,500 Sold:
€ 30,000 / $ 34,500 (incl. surcharge)
Liebespaar. 1928.
Watercolor and pencil.
A 1928/1. Signed and dated lower right, verso titled. On firm paper. 31.5 x 45.1 cm (12.4 x 17.7 in), the full sheet.
PROVENANCE: Collection Haubrich, Cologne.
Auction house Lempertz, 544. auction, 1975, lot 207, illu. plate 16.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (around 1976).
Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich
Private collection, Germany (acquired from previously mentioned in 1988).
EXHIBITION: Sonderausstellung Otto Dix, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich 1929, cat. no. 53.
Collection Haubrich, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden 1948, cat. no. 23.
240 Werke von 50 Künstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1976, cat. no. 56 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich, inventory catalog 1988/89, p. 42 (with illu. on p. 43).
Watercolor and pencil.
A 1928/1. Signed and dated lower right, verso titled. On firm paper. 31.5 x 45.1 cm (12.4 x 17.7 in), the full sheet.
PROVENANCE: Collection Haubrich, Cologne.
Auction house Lempertz, 544. auction, 1975, lot 207, illu. plate 16.
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (around 1976).
Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich
Private collection, Germany (acquired from previously mentioned in 1988).
EXHIBITION: Sonderausstellung Otto Dix, Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zurich 1929, cat. no. 53.
Collection Haubrich, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden 1948, cat. no. 23.
240 Werke von 50 Künstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1976, cat. no. 56 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich, inventory catalog 1988/89, p. 42 (with illu. on p. 43).
The striking immediacy that Otto Dix employed for the presentation of his figures remained unmatched by most of his contemporaries. With an unusual poise and spontaneity Dix captured his models' character traits, just as it is the case with the two lovers in this work. On the one hand the shy blushing girl, on the other her gentle but demanding lover. However, Dix emphasizes the bond between them and their harmony. He was confident that the way he saw people helped him to really grasp them: "Hundred photos of a person are just hundred different snapshots, hundred short moments, but never the phenomenon as a whole. Only the painter sees and forms the whole." (Suse Pfäffle, Otto Dix. Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen, Stuttgart, p.21)
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