Sale: 437 / Post War I, Dec. 10. 2016 in Munich Lot 805.10

 

805.10
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Drei gelbe Scheiben, 1954.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 180,000 / $ 194,400
Sold:
€ 225,000 / $ 243,000

(incl. surcharge)
Drei gelbe Scheiben. 1954.
Oil on canvas.
Scheibler 717. Lower right signed and dated. 100 x 125 cm (39.3 x 49.2 in).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich.
Private collection Milan (since 1954).

EXHIBITION: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, 20 July - late August 1954, cat. no. 8 with illu and cat. wrapper.

LITERATURE: Werner Haftmann, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Cologne 1960, p. 166, illu. 49.
Peter-Klaus Schuster, Nays ständige Wandlung, in: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Bilder und Dokumente, Munich 1980, pp.11f., illu. IV p. 11.
Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, 54th year, issue 7, Munich, April 1956, illu. p. 250.
Doris Schmidt (editor), Briefe an Günther Franke, Porträt eines deutschen Kunsthändlers, Cologne 1970, illu. 30.

Ernst Wilhelm Nay and the gallery G ünther Franke are inseparably connected. It is in the nature of big art dealers to have a deeply personal connection with the artists they represent, aside from their business relations. This was also the case with Henri Kahnweiler and Paul Cassirer. For Ernst Wilhelm Nay Günther Franke was not just the broker of his art. The correspondence between them shows how close and personal their exchange was. The catalog published on occasion of the 50\up6 th anniversary of the Galerie Günther Franke in 1973 only contained works by Ernst Wilhem Nay. This work was also sold through the Galerie Günther Franke. As it has been mentioned before, the oeuvre of Ernst Wilhelm Nay is characterized by several different periods. This work by Ernst Wilhelm Nay is an early work from the “Scheibenbilder” (Disc Pictures), one of the artist's most famous series. However, the work still shows notions of the previous series of the "Rhythmischen Bilder" (Rhythmic Pictures), as it is still determined by a strong rhythmical gesture expressed by the individual color forms and their interrelations and accompanied by a pulse of black line structures and dots. Nay's concept of music as a source of inspiration comes to mind right away, for instance by works from Strawinsky, Hindemith and Schönberg or the then progressive composers Nono, Boulez and Stockhausen. Over the following years Nay's color fields would become more and more like discs and accompany the artist's transition to color field painting.



805.10
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Drei gelbe Scheiben, 1954.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 180,000 / $ 194,400
Sold:
€ 225,000 / $ 243,000

(incl. surcharge)