Liegender Akt. 1931.
Red chalk.
Lorenz Nsk 11.2.5. Lower right signed. On creme machine-made laid paper. 26 x 45.8 cm (10.2 x 18 in), size of sheet.
[AW].
• In 1931 Dix became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and was at the peak of his career.
• Expressive nude in classic red chalks from a fateful period in the artist's life.
• Dix is the main representative of New Objectivity.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Saxony.

EXHIBITION: Otto Dix - Handzeichnungen 1912-1962, Deutsche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, September 6 - October 13, 1963, no cat. no., p. 58.
Galerie Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Baden-Baden, September/October 1967, cat. no. 31.
Otto Dix. Gesellschaftskritik und Kunst, Kunstverein Göttingen, Städtisches Museum am Ritterplan, Göttingen, September/October 1968, cat. no. 51.
Otto Dix. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Radierfolge "Der Krieg", Museum Folkwang, Essen, December 3, 1971 - January 23, 1972; Frankfurter Kunstverein, February 11 - March 26, 1972; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, May 7 - June 25, 1972, cat. no. 154.
Otto Dix. acquerelli, disegni, incisioni, Galleria Giulia, Goethe-Institut, Rome, 1972, cat. no. 154.

"The finest drawings from this period, which indeed are singular in modern German, have long been scattered to the four winds and barely available."
Otto Conzelmann, in: Otto Dix. Handzeichnungen, Hanover 1968, p. 44.

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