158 - Otto Dix. The Gospel According to Matthew. Luther Translation, revised in 1956. Original lithographs. Berlin, Käthe Vogt, 1960. With 33 lithographs, 25 of which are full-sheet. Original Saffian leather binding with gold-stamped title on the spine.

Otto Dix. The Gospel According to Matthew. Luther Translation, revised in 1956. Original lithographs. Berlin, Käthe Vogt, 1960. With 33 lithographs, 25 of which are full-sheet. Original Saffian leather binding with gold-stamped title on the spine. Call time: approx. 1:31 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of 100 special edition copies in saffian leather, signed by Otto Dix on the title page (total print run: 2,000). - “In this final cycle, Dix freed himself from slavish fidelity to the text as well as from illustrative complacency. What interested him was the dramatic richness of the material, the abundance of events, and the strange and tragic situations.” (Hans Kinkel, quoted in Karsch). - An impeccably beautiful copy of the finest special edition; another 300 were bound in half-parchment. Karsch 235–271. — Tiessen II, 1 29.5 × 23.5 cm. 104, [4] pages.