I love this insistence of femininity, despite age, sickness, or widowhood. Does the veil make the (wo)man? 
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This summer, the Neue Galerie in New York is offering the first large-scale American exhibition of the gleefully provocative German painter Otto Dix (1891–1969)—providing a rare opportunity, as New York Review contributor Sanford Schwartz says, “to appreciate an artist who could almost be our contemporary.”
Read Peter Schjeldahl’s review of the exhibition (subscribers only).
Otto Dix: Lady with Mink and Veil, 1920 Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on cardboard, 28 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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I love this insistence of femininity, despite age, sickness, or widowhood. Does the veil make the (wo)man?

newyorker:

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This summer, the Neue Galerie in New York is offering the first large-scale American exhibition of the gleefully provocative German painter Otto Dix (1891–1969)—providing a rare opportunity, as New York Review contributor Sanford Schwartz says, “to appreciate an artist who could almost be our contemporary.”

Read Peter Schjeldahl’s review of the exhibition (subscribers only).

Otto Dix: Lady with Mink and Veil, 1920
Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on cardboard, 28 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.
© 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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