Billardspieler (Billiard Players)

1920

Otto Dix

Associated Names
Otto Dix

Artist, German, 1891 - 1969

This is a drawing of a group gathered around a billiard table. The image includes an interior scene featuring a billiard table in the center, around which four figures are gathered. To the left, there is a wall adorned with mugs or glasses, and on the right, a scoreboard can be seen. There is an intricate design on the curtains covering the windows. The room is lit by a hanging lamp, casting shadows. Each character is dressed in attire reflective of early 20th-century fashion. The drawing captures social interaction in a bygone era with fine lines and shading techniques.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove cream paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.6 × 33.1 cm (10 1/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.8 × 49.5 cm (12 15/16 × 19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.195

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Karsch 1970, no. 12, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 15, 2005; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1970

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix, das graphische Werke.Hannover, 1970: no. 12, only

Inscriptions

lettered in image, at lower right: DIX; signed, dated and titled below image, in graphite: Ätzradierung Billardspieler DIX 1920; at bottom right corner, in pen and black ink, by later hand: 16

Wikidata ID

Q76556325

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