100 - Otto DIX (Untermhaus 1891–Singen 1969)

Otto DIX (Untermhaus 1891–Singen 1969) Bauerhof, The Farm Mixed media on brown paper 27 x 28 cm Signed lower left: Dix Bears a handwritten inscription lower left: Z17/8 K1084 Provenance: Valentien Gallery, Stuttgart Tendances Gallery, Paris Private collection (acquired from the previous owner) Exhibition: “Otto Dix: War Drawings” exhibition, Galerie Tendances, Paris; reproduced on page 25 of the catalog Bibliography: Otto Dix Archives: W K 5-3-9 Otto Dix, Van Lil, 1996; no. 195, titled *Bauernhof II* Ulrike Lorenz, *Otto Dix: The Catalog Raisonné of Drawings and Pastels*, published by the Otto Dix Foundation, Vaduz, Weimar 2003; WK 5.3.9, reproduced on page 383 Exploration of the Subject: Architecture and Landscape [1915/16] In “Architecture and Landscape,” the devastation of war is hardly, if at all, evident [see WK 5.3.]. Dix produced another series of nine expressive chalk drawings in Bautzen, in eastern Saxony. The expressive range of the “Explorations of the Object,” straddling reality and vision, unfolds in drawings of cows and the church in Thugny (externally, a crystalline structure; internally, the Baroque paintings that Dix copied). The classification is based on geographical indications and stylistic characteristics, without taking into account the dates in the Dix archive, which have been corrected only marginally. 1915: Bautzen—landscape—animal. 1915/16: park – Faverger Bridge – Thugny: village, church, copies – cemeteries – streets. In Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix, Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, published by the Otto Dix Foundation Vaduz, Weimar 2003, page 363 (Translation by Millon Auction Group)