Young Family (Lovers) (Junge Familie [Liebespaar]), 1918

Not on View

Medium

pen and brush and black ink on brown wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 39.9 x 39.5 cm (15 11/16 x 15 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard A. Simms and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Lorenz 2003, Vol. I, WK 7.0.39

Accession Number

1995.34.1

Artists / Makers

Otto Dix (artist) German, 1891 - 1969

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Inscription

lower right in ink: DIX; lower left verso in graphite: Homunkulus 1918; upper right verso in graphite: [illegible]: Homunkulus

Provenance

Philip Sills, New York (acquired from the artist); (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 23 and 25, February 1993, no. 62); Carol Selle, New York; purchased by NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Selle, Richard, Mr. and Mrs.
Sills, Philip
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1995: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 36, as Homunkulus.

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

2001: A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002: no. 36.

2003: Lorenz, Ulrike.Otto Dix Das Werverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle.VDG: Weimar, 2003