Sale: 488 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, June 08. 2019 in Munich Lot 519

 

519
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lofoten, 1937.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,250

(incl. surcharge)
Lofoten. 1937.
Watercolor.
Not in Claesges. Signed and dated in lower left. On laid paper by Ingres (with watermark). 48 x 62.7 cm (18.8 x 24.6 in), almost the full sheet.
[EH].

The work is registered in the (online-) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay's works on paper with the number 37014.2. The catalog is regularly up-dated by Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler and Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Cologne.

PROVENANCE: Presumably acquired directly from the artist.
Since in family possession.

"The nature of the Lofoten Islands was Nay's muse.“ Quote from Welt am Sonntag, December 29, 2002.




519
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lofoten, 1937.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 16,200
Sold:
€ 18,750 / $ 20,250

(incl. surcharge)