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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2025 | Tanzsaal | 22 | Christie's | London | |||
| Jun 1, 1989 | Dance hall | Karl & Faber | Munich | ||||
Works on Paper
49.5 x 44.5 cm (19.5 x 17.5 in)
watercolour and pencil on paper
signed, dated and numbered "DIX 22 / 142" (lower right); inscribed "Tanzsaal" (on the reverse)
Galerie Nierendorf Köln Neue Kunst, Cologne, on consignment from the artist, by 8 November 1922.
Johanna Ey, Dusseldorf, on consignment from Martha Dix [the artist"s wife], by 27 November 1926.
Kunstsammlungen der Stadt, Dusseldorf, by whom acquired from the above, on 25 October 1929.
Confiscated from the above as "degenerate art" by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (EK no. 2261), on 26 August 1937.
Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg, by whom acquired from the above on 21 March 1941; sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 13 May 1948, lot 367.
Private collection, by 1971.
Galerie Im Erker, St Gallen, by 1972.
Private collection, Italy; sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 1 June 1989, lot 807.
Galleri K, Oslo, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt, Otto Dix zum 80. Geburtstag: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Radierfolge "Der Krieg" , October - November 1971, no. 167, p. 166.
F. Roh, "Entartete" Kunst, Kunstbarbarei im Dritten Reich, Hanover, 1962, p. 152.
B.S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die neue Sachlichkeit, 1918-1925, Ann Arbor , 1981, no. 36, p. 141 (with incorrect medium).
S. Pfäffle, Otto Dix: Werkverzeichnis der Aquarelle und Gouachen , Stuttgart, 1991, no. A 1922/68, p. 159 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
1937, Die Aktion "Entartete Kunst", exh. cat., Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, 2017, p. 50 (with incorrect medium).
OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Tanzsaal
signed, dated and numbered "DIX 22 / 142" (lower right); inscribed "Tanzsaal" (on the reverse)
watercolour and pencil on paper
19 ½ x 17 ½ in. (49.5 x 44.4 cm.)
Executed in 1922
