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OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Die kesse Berta
signed and dated '1920 DIX' (lower right) and inscribed 'Die kesse Berta.' (upper right)
pencil and estompe on paper
1714 x 1214 in. (43.8 x 30.9 cm.)
Executed in 1920
Provenance
Private collection, Germany, circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
O. Conzelmann, Otto Dix: Handzeichnungen, Hanover, 1968, no. 61 (illustrated).
H. Kinkel, Otto Dix: Protokolle der Hölle, Zeichnungen, Frankfurt, 1968 (illustrated fig. 62).
F. Löffler, Der Fall Otto Dix, Reutlingen, 1971.
O. Conzelmann, Otto Dix: Weiber, Frankfurt, 1976 (illustrated p. 52).
E. Karcher, Dix, Munich, 1986 (illustrarted p. 49).
E. Karcher, Otto Dix: Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1988 (illustrated p. 78).
E. Karcher, Otto Dix, Paris, 1990 (illustrarted p. 49).
E. Karcher, Otto Dix: Entweder ich werde Berühmt, oder berüchtigt, Cologne, 1992, p. 64 (illustrated).
B.S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die neue Sachlichkeit 1918-1925, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988, III.C 15.
E. Karcher, Dix, Cologne, 2002, p. 62 (illustrated).
U. Lorenz, Otto Dix: Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, vol. II, Expressionismus, Dadaismus, Verismus, Bonn, 2002, no. EDV 5.3.10.
Exhibited
Munich, Moderne Galerie Thannhauser, Otto Dix, June - July 1926, probably no. 37.
Berlin, Deutsche Akademie der Künste, Otto Dix: Handzeichnungen 1912-1962, September - Ocober 1963, (illustrated fig. 22).
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Otto Dix: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, December 1966 - January 1967, no. 129.
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Meister der Zeichnung in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, September - October 1967, no. 32 (illustrated fig. 33).
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Otto Dix: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik, February - March 1967, no. 129.
Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt, Otto Dix zum 80. Geburtstag: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen und Radierfolge 'Der Krieg', October - November 1971, no. 228.
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Otto Dix: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Grafiken, Kartons, April - June 1977, no. 15 (illustrated p. 68).
Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt, Otto Dix, Menschenbilder: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen und Zeichnungen, December 1981 - January 1982, no. 86 (illustrated).
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Otto Dix, August - October 1985, no. 328 (illustrated p. 165).
Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt, Otto Dix, September - November 1991, no. Z 1920-3; this exhibition later travelled to London, Tate Gallery, March - May 1992, p. 113 (illustrated fig. 43).
Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Geisterbahn und Glanzrevue: Otto Dix, Aquarelle und Gouachen, June - September 2007, no. 328, p. 310 (illustrated p. 165).
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‘I wasn't at all interested in depicting ugliness. Everything I've ever seen is beautiful.’
(Otto Dix, quoted in D. Schmidt, Otto Dix im Selbstbildnis, Berlin, 1981, p. 149)

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