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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Berlin 1902 – 1968 Cologne

”Figurale – Nausikaa”. 1950

Oil on canvas. 60 × 70 cm (23 ⅝ × 27 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Figurale – Nausikaa”. 1950.

Estimate:

EUR 120,000

 

- 150,000

USD 117,000

 

- 146,000

Sold for:

187,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2022

Selected Works, Thursday, 01.12.2022

Information

Oil on canvas. 60 × 70 cm (23 ⅝ × 27 ½ in.). Signed and dated lower right: Nay. 50. Inscribed with brush in black (partially overpainted) on the stretcher: Nay Figurale Nausikaa 1950. There too a label of the exhibition Edinburgh 1991 (see below). Catalogue raisonné: Scheibler 488.

Private Collection, Northern Germany (acquired in 1980 from the estate of the artist)

Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1950, cat. no. 65 / Retrospektive E.W. Nay. Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Basel, Kunsthalle; Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1990/1991, cat. no. 43

art - Das Kunstmagazin Nr. 3, Hamburg, 1991, ill. p. 33 / Magdalene Claesges-Bette: Die Geburt des elementaren Bildes aus dem Geist der Abstraktion: Versuch einer Deutung der theoretischen Schriften von Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Cologne, Univ. PhD diss., 2001, p. 106 / Friedrich Weltzien: Ernst Wilhelm Nay – Figur und Körperbild – Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre. Berlin, Reimer Verlag, 2003, p. 274 / John-Paul Stonard, Pamela Kort: Ernst WIlhelm Nay. London, Ridinghouse, 2012, p. 94, ill. p. 98

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