Lot 102 
Raumbeispiel
102
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Menschenschicksale II, 1939.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 41,200 Sold:
€ 82,550 / $ 85,026 (incl. surcharge)
Menschenschicksale II. 1939.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Several times inscribed "64" on the reverse. 50.5 x 75.4 cm (19.8 x 29.6 in).
[AR].
• Wonderfully rhythmic and dynamic beach picture, made a year after the Lofoten pictures.
• The fusion of figure and nature is reminiscent of the Nordic paintings, however, with the milder ochre and brown tones, it develops an independent, more earthbound effect.
• In the year it was made, Nay traveled to the Black Sea in Bulgaria, but had to interrupt his stay prematurely due to the outbreak of war.
• Exhibited in the posthumous Nay retrospective on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday in Munich and Bonn in 2002.
PROVENANCE: Elly Nay, Berlin.
Eberhard Seel, Berlin and Cologne.
Privately-owned.
Private collection Northern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Nay-Atelieraufstellung, 1940, no. 64 (several times inscribed "64" on the reverse).
Das frühe Bild - Malerei und Plastik, Sonderausstellung, Deutscher Künstlerbund, 10. Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 18 - December 11, 1960, cat. no. 336.
Nay - Variationen. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, September 27 - November 24, 2002; Kunstmuseum Bonn, December 19, 2002 - February 16, 2003, cat. no. B 22 (color illu. p. 91).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler/Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. I: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, no. 271 (color illu.).
Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 85th auction, May 28, 2005, lot 6776 (color illu.).
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Several times inscribed "64" on the reverse. 50.5 x 75.4 cm (19.8 x 29.6 in).
[AR].
• Wonderfully rhythmic and dynamic beach picture, made a year after the Lofoten pictures.
• The fusion of figure and nature is reminiscent of the Nordic paintings, however, with the milder ochre and brown tones, it develops an independent, more earthbound effect.
• In the year it was made, Nay traveled to the Black Sea in Bulgaria, but had to interrupt his stay prematurely due to the outbreak of war.
• Exhibited in the posthumous Nay retrospective on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday in Munich and Bonn in 2002.
PROVENANCE: Elly Nay, Berlin.
Eberhard Seel, Berlin and Cologne.
Privately-owned.
Private collection Northern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Nay-Atelieraufstellung, 1940, no. 64 (several times inscribed "64" on the reverse).
Das frühe Bild - Malerei und Plastik, Sonderausstellung, Deutscher Künstlerbund, 10. Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 18 - December 11, 1960, cat. no. 336.
Nay - Variationen. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, September 27 - November 24, 2002; Kunstmuseum Bonn, December 19, 2002 - February 16, 2003, cat. no. B 22 (color illu. p. 91).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler/Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. I: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, no. 271 (color illu.).
Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 85th auction, May 28, 2005, lot 6776 (color illu.).
102
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Menschenschicksale II, 1939.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 41,200 Sold:
€ 82,550 / $ 85,026 (incl. surcharge)