Liegender Akt mit erhobenen Beinen. 1925.
Pencil drawing.
Lorenz NSk 4.3.3. Lower right signed and belatedly dated. On off-white wove paper. 48 x 46.3 cm (18.8 x 18.2 in), the full sheet.
[KT].

• Dix is an important representative of Expressionism and New Objectivity
• In this sheet, Dix redefines the nude study through the unusual expressionistic pose and an unsparing realism.
• In 1925 Dix moved to Berlin and participated in the eponymous travelling exhibition "Neue Sachlichkeit" (New Objectivity)
• Dix had his artistic breakthrough in the mid 1920s.

PROVENANCE: Artist's studio (until at least 1963).
Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (1971/73).
Private collection Vogel.
Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Bavarria.

EXHIBITION: Otto Dix. Handzeichnungen 1912-1962, Deutsche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Sept./Oct. 1963 (no number).

LITERATURE: Brigid S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die neue Sachlichkeit 1918-1925 (diss.), Ann Arbor 1981, no. VIII.C.22.
Otto Conzelmann, Otto Dix. Weiber, Frankfurt a. Main 1976 (illu. 79).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction May 6, 2000, lot 28 (with illu.).

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