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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Berlin 1902 – 1968 Cologne

”Metagrau”. 1960

Oil on canvas. 150 × 100,5 cm (59 × 39 ⅝ in.).
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This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.
This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.

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This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.
This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.

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This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.
This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.

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This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Metagrau”. 1960.

Estimate:

EUR 150,000

 

- 200,000

USD 176,000

 

- 235,000

Auction 375

Thursday, 04.06.2026, 6:00 PM

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Oil on canvas. 150 × 100,5 cm (59 × 39 ⅝ in.). Signed and dated lower right: Nay 60. Signed on the reverse: Nay. On the stretcher signed, titled and dated: NAY – „METAGRAU“ – 1960. There too labels of the exhibition Rio de Janeiro 1960 (see below) and of Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne. Catalogue raisonné: Scheibler 962 (online catalogue raisonné) / Scheibler 962. [3033] Framed

Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne / Private Collection, Hesse

Arte Alemana desde 1945. Rio de Janeiro, Museo de Arte Moderna, 1960, cat. no. 157 / E. W. Nay – Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen von 1932 bis heute. Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, 1960, cat. no. 32 / Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Cologne, Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, 1981, no. cat. no, ill.

Galerie Orangerie-Reinz (ed.): Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne 1990. Cologne, Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, 1990, ill. p. 55 / John-Paul Stonard und Pamela Kort: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. London, Rinding House, 2012, p. 118, ill. p. 131

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