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
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.300
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Markings
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.
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