Name: OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Brand: Nelly mit Spielzeug ('Nelly with Toys')
Price: 5000.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

OTTO DIX (1891-1969)
Nelly mit Spielzeug ('Nelly with Toys')
signed DIX (lower right)
pencil on tracing paper
20³⁄₄ x 15¹⁄₄ in. (52.7 x 38.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1925

Acquired by 1977; then by descent to the present owners.

B. Barton, Otto Dix and die Neue Sachlichkeit, 1918-1925, Michigan, 1981, no. VIII.C.12.
F. Löffler, Otto Dix - Oeuvre der Gemälde, Recklinghausen, 1981, p. 307 (erroneously listed under no. 13).
U. Lorenz, Otto Dix - Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastelle, vol. III, Weimar, 2003, no. NSk 8.1.13, p. 1221 (ill.).

Cologne, Baukunst Galerie, Otto Dix - Retrospektiv-Ausstellung anlässlich des 75. Geburtsjahres, January - March 1966, no. 31.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Otto Dix, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik, December 1966 - January 1967, no. 152; this exhibition later travelled to Frankfurt, Kunstverein, February - March 1967.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Otto Dix, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Grafiken, Kartons, April - June 1977, no. 151, p. 134.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, German Realist Drawings of the 1920s, May - July 1986, no. 29, p. 219, ill. p. 99; this exhibition later travelled to Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, July - September 1986; and Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, October - December 1986.
Ingelheim, Museum-Altes-Rathaus, Der Traum von einer neuen Welt, Berlin 1910-1933, April - June 1989, no. 133, p. 198 (illustrated).
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers - Druckgraphik und vorbereitenden Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, Part II, April - September 2000, p. 105, ill. p. 69.

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Nelly mit Spielzeug is closely related to Otto Dix's painting of 1925 of the same subject now at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. The portrait depicts the artist's two-year-old daughter, Nelly, as she sits at a wooden tabletop before an assortment of toys. This childhood scene contrasts sharply with Dix's often socially critical paintings of the 1920s, although even the figure of the little girl has the uncanny intensity so characteristic of the artist's graphic works of the period.