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Otto Dix
Hekate I, 1968
India Ink
Estimate:
€ 3,000Sold:
€ 3,683 Lot description
Hekate I. 1968.
Brush in litho-India Ink and litho chalk.
Lower left inscribed "für Cassoubuch I". 36.8 x 26.7 cm (14.4 x 10.5 in), the full sheet.
The drawing references the lithograph of the same name (Karsch 324) [EH].
• Otto Dix's work is characterized by the themes of Eros and Thanatos to some extent.
• The drawing was used as a model for the lithograph of the same name
• On permanent loan to the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen for many yearsn.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
LITERATURE: Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix. Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, vol. VI, Weimar 2003, no. SW 8.3.6.(illustrated)
Lutz Tittel (ed.), Otto Dix, Die Friedrichshafener Sammlung. Inventory catalog, Zeppelin-Museum Friedrichshafen, 1992, no. 415, illustrated on p. 476.
Good overall impression. The sheet is somewhat wavy in places along the edges. With a horizontal crease in the lower part of the image. Two larger paper blemishes on Hecate's neck and in left and right along her hair, as the paper is somewhat skinned.
Brush in litho-India Ink and litho chalk.
Lower left inscribed "für Cassoubuch I". 36.8 x 26.7 cm (14.4 x 10.5 in), the full sheet.
The drawing references the lithograph of the same name (Karsch 324) [EH].
• Otto Dix's work is characterized by the themes of Eros and Thanatos to some extent.
• The drawing was used as a model for the lithograph of the same name
• On permanent loan to the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen for many yearsn.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
LITERATURE: Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix. Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, vol. VI, Weimar 2003, no. SW 8.3.6.(illustrated)
Lutz Tittel (ed.), Otto Dix, Die Friedrichshafener Sammlung. Inventory catalog, Zeppelin-Museum Friedrichshafen, 1992, no. 415, illustrated on p. 476.
Good overall impression. The sheet is somewhat wavy in places along the edges. With a horizontal crease in the lower part of the image. Two larger paper blemishes on Hecate's neck and in left and right along her hair, as the paper is somewhat skinned.
Otto Dix
Hekate I, 1968
India Ink
Estimate:
€ 3,000Sold:
€ 3,683