Lot 125
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125
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1963.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000 Sold:
€ 34,290 / $ 37,719 (incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1963.
Watercolor.
Lower right signed and dated. On firm watercolor paper. 41.8 x 60 cm (16.4 x 23.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• From the group of the "Eye Pictures", in which Nay changed his previous key motif of the Disk in a gestural expressive manner, by 'crossing it out', he found the depiction of the "eyes".
• The warm dark colors and the variation of opaque and glazed elements create a particularly atmospheric composition.
• The following year, Nay showed his works at the important documenta III in Kassel.
• Comparable watercolors from this series can be found in, among others, the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Buffalo AKG Art Gallery in Buffalo/New York, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Galerie M. Knoedler & Co., New York (1964).
Private collection (1965).
Galerie M. Knoedler & Co.New York.
Galerie Thomas, Munich (acquired from the above in 1973).
Private collection Southern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Galerie M. Knoedler & Co., New York, January 21 - February 8, 1964.
Contemporary European Watercolors (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), traveling exhibition with stops at various American museums, 1965/66 (exhibition label on the reverse).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, no. 63-061 (color illu.).
Watercolor.
Lower right signed and dated. On firm watercolor paper. 41.8 x 60 cm (16.4 x 23.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• From the group of the "Eye Pictures", in which Nay changed his previous key motif of the Disk in a gestural expressive manner, by 'crossing it out', he found the depiction of the "eyes".
• The warm dark colors and the variation of opaque and glazed elements create a particularly atmospheric composition.
• The following year, Nay showed his works at the important documenta III in Kassel.
• Comparable watercolors from this series can be found in, among others, the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Buffalo AKG Art Gallery in Buffalo/New York, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich.
PROVENANCE: Galerie M. Knoedler & Co., New York (1964).
Private collection (1965).
Galerie M. Knoedler & Co.New York.
Galerie Thomas, Munich (acquired from the above in 1973).
Private collection Southern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Galerie M. Knoedler & Co., New York, January 21 - February 8, 1964.
Contemporary European Watercolors (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), traveling exhibition with stops at various American museums, 1965/66 (exhibition label on the reverse).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, no. 63-061 (color illu.).
125
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1963.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 33,000 Sold:
€ 34,290 / $ 37,719 (incl. surcharge)