Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Berlin 1902 – 1968 Cologne
”Figurale - Eta”. 1949
Oil on canvas. 70,6 × 90 cm. (27 ¾ × 35 ⅜ in.) Signed and dated lower left: Nay 49. Signed, titled and dated in black on the reverse on the stretcher: NAY FIGURALE - ETA – 1949. Catalogue raisonné: Scheibler 486. [3293]
ProvenancePrivate Collection, Northern Germany (acquired in 1984 at Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, thence by descent to the present owner)
EUR 150.000 – 200.000
USD 167,000 – 222,000
Sold for:
225,000 EUR (incl. premium)
ExhibitionE. W. Nay (Retrospektive) catalogue (Ölbilder, Gouachen. Aquarelle, Zeichnungen). Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1950, cat. no. 56 / Neue Rheinische Secession Düsseldorf. Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1950, cat. no. 149 (here: 1945) / Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Die Hofheimer Jahre 1945-1951. Frankfurt a. M., Städtische Galerie im Städel; Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, 1994, cat. no. 47, ill. p. 119
Literature and IllustrationAuction 254: Moderne Kunst. Hamburg, Hauswedell & Nolte, 9.6. 1984, cat. no. 1177a, ill. pl. 47
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