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Otto Dix
Balancing act1922

Not on view
Etching on cream paper of a donkey-headed figure in a ruffled costume playing a trumpet, with a tilting table stacked with strange objects above
Artist or Maker
Otto Dix
Title
Balancing act
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1922
Medium
Etching with drypoint on copperplate paper
Dimensions
Plate: 11 3/4 x 7 15/16 in. (29.85 x 20.16 cm); Sheet: 19 5/8 x 16 in. (49.85 x 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.50d
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Karsch, Florian. Otto Dix: das graphische Werk. Hrsg. von Florian Karsch. Eingeleitet von Hans Kinkel. Hannover: Schmidt-Küster, c. 1970
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.