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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR34.81
People
Otto Dix, German (Gera, Germany 1891 - 1969 Singen, Germany)
Title
Head of a Woman
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Frauenkopf
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1932
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226036

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalks on brown prepared wove paper.
Dimensions
57.6 x 47.6 cm (22 11/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: monogrammed in black crayon at c.r.: [monogram] / 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
BR34.81
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 43
  • Ulrike Lorenz, Otto Dix : Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, Band III, VDG (Weimar, Germany, 2003), cat. no. NSk 12.3.21, p. 1461, b/w illus.
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 87
  • William A. Berry, Drawing the Human Form: Methods, Sources, Concepts, Janet Rollins Berry (Columbia, MO, 2024), p. 154 ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967

Verification Level

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