Feb 15, 2026

Otto Dix The Nun - MOMA - Location unknown as of 1959

Otto Dix (German, 1891–1969.)

The Nun [Die Nonne]. 1914

Oil on cardboard, 27 5/8 x 20 5/8" (70.2 x 52.4 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Gertrude W. Dennis



Accession Number: 253.88

Other works by this artist

Provenance:

Location unknown as of 1959
(Irwin Lefcourt) Art Fair Galleries, New York. By November 1963 
Gertrude W. and Seth Dennis, Westport, Connecticut. [By 1981] By 1988
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Gertrude W. Dennis, 1988

Alternate title:

Nuns

 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79284


https://web.archive.org/web/20080317023726/http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/items/253.88.html


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Emil Nolde Papuan Head (Papua-Kopf) 1914 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/35944 


 Not on view

Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw
Object number
279.1958

Copyright
© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany

This work is included in the Provenance Research Project.

Heinrich Kirchhoff (1874-1934), Wiesbaden, by 1917 [1]; by inheritance to Antonie Kirchhoff, Wiesbaden, 1934. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, by 1956 [2]; sold to New Gallery (Eugene Victor Thaw), New York, by 1958 [3]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958 (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw).


[1] W. Müller-Wulckow. "Die Sammlung Kirchhoff in Wiesbaden," Das Kunstblatt vol. 1, no. 4 (1917), p. 117. Reproduced with the title "Aus Neu-Guinea" [From New Guinea]. Included in the exhibition "Privatsammlung Kirchhoff," Wiesbaden, Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden, February 1-April 1, 1917. 
[2] "Emil Nolde," Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, April 2-May 4, 1956. 
[3] "Exhibition of Prints by Kirchner and Nolde," The Minneapolis Institute of Arts [organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York], February 14 - March 31, 1958. Lender: The New Gallery, New York.


See previous archives for this artwork here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3594


See archive of other MoMa artworks in the provenance research project:

2003

https://web.archive.org/web/20030202082108/https://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/list.html


2005

https://web.archive.org/web/20050730002843/http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/list.html


2009

https://web.archive.org/web/20090201191824/http://www.moma.org/collection/provenance/list.html


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