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25 Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Berlin 1902 – 1968 Cologne

”Epsilon”. 1959

Oil on canvas. 162 × 130 cm (63 ¾ × 51 ⅛ in.). Signed and dated lower right: Nay 59. On the stretcher signed and dated: Nay 1959. Catalogue raisonné: Scheibler 937. [3045] Framed

Provenance

Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (1973) / Private Collection, Hesse

EUR 300,000

 

- 400,000

USD 337,000

 

- 449,000

Auction 367

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Exhibition

5’ Bienal da São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, 1959, cat. no. 21 (A Contribuição Alemã, cat. no. 81) / Nay. London, New London Gallery, 1960, cat. no. 17, ill. / Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Münster, Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1964, cat. no. 14, ill. / E. W. Nay (retrospective). Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Berlin, Akademie der Künste, and Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, 1966/67, cat. no. 47, ill. / E. W. Nay (retrospective). Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1967, cat. no. 44 / 50 Jahre Galerie Günther Franke. Nay-Bilder, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Munich, Galerie Günther Franke, 1973, cat. no. 109, ill. 

Literature and illustration

W. Haftmann: E. W. Nay, Cologne 1960, ill. p. 199 / Staat und Kunst, Festschrift zur 10. Verleihung des Großen Kunstpreises des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Dusseldorf, 1962, ill. p. 44 / U. Groos, S. Preuss: Zukunft und Erinnerung. Sechzig Jahre deutsche Kunst auf der Biennale São Paulo, in: German Art in São Paulo, Deutsche Kunst auf der Biennale, German Art at the Biennial 1951–2012, Ostfildern 2013, p. 63 ff. and p. 321. 

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