Portrait of the Artist's Son Ursus, 1931

  • Otto Dix, German, 1891-1969

Watercolor and graphite pencil on cream wove paper

  • Sheet: 22 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. 56.4 x 39.0 cm

Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

70.300

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, upper left: DIX

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, near lower center: Ursus Inscribed, at center of lower margin: Lg. 1823

J.B. Neumann (New York, New York, USA)

Robert H. Tannahill (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 92-93, no. 43 (ill.).

Otto Dix, Portrait of the Artist's Son Ursus, 1931, Watercolor and graphite pencil on cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.300.