867. Otto Dix (1891-1969), German,

Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden, 1926.

Oil and tempera on wood, 121 x 89 cm.

Musée national d’art moderne,

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Expressionism.

 

 

In the 1920s, it was Dix’s reputation as a portraitist that secured him the most success and financial gain. His razor-sharp painting of this ultramodern woman, with a whiff of decay about her, is exemplary of his best works in the unflinching style of so-called Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).