Portrait of the Artist's Son Ursus

Otto Dix German, 1891-1969
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About the Artwork

Portrait of the Artist's Son Ursus

1931

Otto Dix

1891-1969

German

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Watercolor and graphite pencil on cream wove paper

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

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

70.300

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Signed, upper left: DIX

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

Provenance

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)

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

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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.

Portrait of the Artist's Son Ursus
Portrait of the Artist's Son Ursus