131 - Otto Dix

Otto Dix Eingang zum Unterstand 1916 Chalk and pencil drawing on yellowish paper. 28.4 x 28.2 cm, Framed under glass. Signed 'DIX' in black lower right. - Mat opening slightly browned, somewhat creased; restored loss in upper left corner, a crease mark to lower left corner. The upper edge recto with remnants of two mounting strips. Lorenz WK 5.4.12; Kabus 391 Provenance Otto Dix Stiftung, Vaduz; Galerie Tendances, Paris; Private collection, France Exhibitions Paris 1988 (Galerie Tendances), Otto Dix. Dessins de la guerre 1915-1917, cat. no. 8 with ill.; Péronne 2012 (Musée de Péronne. Historial de la Grande Guerre), L'Historial fête ses 20 ans, without cat. no. Literature Otto Conzelmann, Der andere Dix. Sein Bild vom Menschen und vom Krieg, Stuttgart 1983, ill. 134, p. 97; Kira van Lil, Otto Dix und der Erste Weltkrieg. Die Natur des Menschen in der Ausnahmesituation, Munich 1999, ill. 81; Fondation Maeght, Otto Dix. Metropolis, Saint-Paul 1998, no. 123, ill. p. 56 "Like ocean waves, the earthen ramparts roll; floating on top of them are tattered trees, as if the sea had spat them out, and beneath them all, in their burrows, live the animals: rats, mice, humans, lice and fleas" (Dix to Helene Jakob, quoted in: Lorenz, vol. I, p. 281).