Otto Dix
1891 - 1969
Leonie. 1923.
Lithograph in colors.
Signed, dated, and numbered. From an edition of 65 copies. On mold-made paper by Johann Wilhelm. 47.6 x 37.7 cm (18.7 x 14.8 in). Sheet: 58,8 x 44,8 cm (23,1 x 17,6 in).
Published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. [AW].

• “Leonie” is one of Otto Dix's most important color lithographs.
• Dix exaggerates society's outsiders into dazzling and caricatured motifs in his depictions.
• The lithographs and etchings from the early 1920s are the artist's most sought-after prints on the international auction market.
• Other copies of this color lithograph can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Kunstmuseum Bern, and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others.

PROVENANCE: Art trade, Bologna (until 2002).
Private collection, Berlin.

LITERATURE: Florian Karsch (ed.), Otto Dix. Das graphische Werk, Hanover 1970, CR no. 58 III b (of b).
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Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 293rd auction, June 12/13, 1992, lot 189 (illu. on plate 58).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 269th auction, May 17, 2002, lot 63.

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