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Otto Dix

The Cannoneer

1913

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Otto Dix

The Cannoneer

1913

Physical Qualities Oil paint on paper mounted on paperboard, Sheet: 854 x 599 mm. (33 5/8 x 23 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number 1964.50
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1964; purchased from the artist following inclusion in 1964 exhibition "1914"
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Gazette des Beaux Arts (supplement to acquisitions), no. 1165 (February 1966), p. 103.
John Canaday, "Art: Baltimore Looks Back 50 Years," New York Times, October 9, 1964, p. 34C (illus).
Cherrill Anson, "1914--The Year and the Era in Art," Sunday Sun Magazine, October 4, 1964, p. 22-24 (illus).
Harold Rosenberg, "1914." Art News, vol. 62 no. 6 (October 1964), p. 28-41 (illus).
BMA News, vol. XXIX, no. 1-2 (1967), p. 44 (illus).

Inscribed: center right in red paint: "DIX / 1914"; upper center verso in graphite: "29.14"; upper right verso stamped: "im / erker / speisergasse 18.St. G "

Artist

Otto Dix

German, 1891-1969
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