Fischer und das Kind. 1962.
Pastel.
Upper right signed and dated. On Hahnemühle mold-made paper (with watermark). 62.5 x 49 cm (24.6 x 19.2 in), size of sheet. [AW].

• In the artist's colorful neo-expressionist late style.
• Freshly colored pastel for the lithograph with the same motif from 1961 (see Karsch 274).
• Dix devoted great interest to portraits throughout his entire oeuvre.
• After returning from French captivity in 1946, Dix settled back on Lake Constance where he painted man and nature.

PROVENANCE: Galerie "Obere Zäune", Zürich (ca. 1964).
Galerie Brinke & Riemenschneider, Hamburg (1971).
Galerie Utermann, Dortmund.
Private collection Bavaria (acquired from the above).
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Presumably Galerie Obere Zäune, Zürich, 1964, cat. no. 32.
Otto Dix, Galerie Brinke & Riemenschneider, Hamburg, 1971.

LITERATURE: Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix. Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, vol. IV, Weimar 2003, no. SW 5.4.16 (fig.).