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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2025 | Christie's | London | Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I | 318 | $****** - ****** | Elli |
Works on Paper
63.6 x 42 cm (25.04 x 16.54 in)
pencil on paper
signed and dated DIX 1921 (lower right); inscribed Elli (upper centre)
Property of the artist, until at least 1964.
Private collection, Hanover.
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, by 1971.
Acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
Heidelberg, Kurpfälzisches Museum, Kunst in Dresden: 18.-20. Jahrhundert - Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik , September - November 1964, no. 123, p. 45.
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Otto Dix - Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik , December 1966 - January 1967, no. 137; this exhibition later travelled to Frankfurt, Kunstverein, February - March 1967.
Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Otto Dix zum 80. Geburtstag: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Radierfolge "Der Krieg" , October - November 1971, no. 230, p. 171.
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Otto Dix - Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Grafiken, Kartons , April - June 1977, no. 21, pp. 67 (ill.) & 130.
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Otto Dix , August - October 1985, no. 331, pp. 167 (ill.) & 310.
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Il disegno del nostro secolo: Prima parte, Da Klimt a Wols, April - July 1994, no. 149, pp. 239 (ill.) & 418.
Berlin, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Otto Dix: " Dame mit Nerz und Schleier" - Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphiken um ein neu entdecktes Bild von 1920 , November 1995 - January 1996, no. 2 (ill.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Weibsbilder , September 2000 - March 2001 (no cat.).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Glitter & Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s, November 2006 - February 2007, no. 80, pp. 224-225 (ill.).
O. Conzelmann (ed.), Otto Dix: Handzeichnungen , Hanover, 1968, no. 65, pp. 36 & 41 (ill.).
H. Kinkel, Otto Dix, Protokolle der Hölle - Zeichnungen, Frankfurt, 1968, no. 69, p. CXXI & pl. 69 (ill.).
O. Conzelmann, Otto Dix, Weiber , Frankfurt, 1976, p. 105 (ill.).
B.S. Barton, Otto Dix and Die neue Sachlichkeit , 1918-1925, Ann Arbor, 1981, no. IV.C.20, p. 139.
M. Eberle, Der Weltkrieg und die Künstler der Weimarer Republik. Dix, Grosz, Beckmann, Schlemmer, Stuttgart, 1989, no. 44, p. 58 (ill.; titled "Akt").
L. Tittel (ed.), Otto Dix: Die Friedrichshafener Sammlung - Bestandskatalog, Friedrichshafen, 1992, no. 25, pp. 34-35 (ill.).
U. Lorenz, Otto Dix - Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle , vol. II, Bonn, 2002, no. EDV 5.2.34, p. 705 (ill.).
OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Elli
signed and dated DIX 1921 (lower right); inscribed Elli (upper centre)
pencil on paper
63,6 x 42 cm. (25 x 16 ½ in.)
Drawn in 1921
