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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR62.17
People
Otto Dix, German (Gera, Germany 1891 - 1969 Singen, Germany)
Title
Head of a Child
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Kinderkopf
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1935
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222887

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metalpoint on white prepared paper
Dimensions
23.7 x 23.4 cm (9 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: monogrammed in metalpoint at l.r.
  • inscription: l.r., metalpoint, handwritten, in artist's hand: 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Dorothy Edinburg
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
BR62.17
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix : Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, Band IV, VDG (Weimar, Germany, 2003), cat. no. IE 2.3.15, p. 1525, b/w illus.

Exhibition History

  • German Art of the Twenties, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/1981 - 04/11/1981
  • 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982

Verification Level

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