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Otto Dix
Dead Men before the Position near Tahure1924

Not on view
Etching or drypoint print of two skull-like open-mouthed heads facing each other, rendered in dense black lines and tonal washes with a small inscribed cartouche at the bottom center
Artist or Maker
Otto Dix
Germany, 1891-1969
Publisher
Karl Nierendorf
Germany, also active United States, 1889-1947
Printer
Otto Felsing Druckerei
Germany, Berlin, 1854-1920
Title
Dead Men before the Position near Tahure
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1924
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 7 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (19.69 x 25.72 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 x 18 11/16 in. (35.24 x 47.47 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.55j
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography
  • Papanikolas, Theresa. Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.