Sale: 489 / Evening Sale, June 07. 2019 in Munich Lot 97

 

97
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Der Abendruf, 1942.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800
Sold:
€ 65,000 / $ 69,550

(incl. surcharge)
Der Abendruf. 1942.
Oil on cardboard.
Scheibler 297. Lower right signed and dated, as well as signed, dated and titled on verso. 23.8 x 31.5 cm (9.3 x 12.4 in).
The work is registered in the work list (Lühdorf list) compiled by Nay's wartime comrade Dr. Hans Lühdorf. The list of works made in France between 1940 and 1944 is mentions this work as number 23 with the title "Frau in goldener Landschaft". [CH].
• One of the rare works made in France.
• Comprehensive exhibition history.
• In a very good state of preservation
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PROVENANCE: Collection Günther Franke, Munich (until 1976).
Private collection Rhineland.

EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay (Retrospective), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin May 17 - June 15, 1952, cat. no. 66.
E. W. Nay (Retrospective), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf January 9 - February 15, 1959, cat. no. 29 (verso with the exhibition label).
Collection Günther Franke, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich September 9 - November 20, 1960, cat. no. 480.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik 1935-1960, Fränkische Galerie, Nuremberg January 10 to mid February 1961.
50 Jahre Galerie Günther Franke. Nay - Bilder, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Graphik aus der Sammlung und Galerie Günther Franke, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, cat. no. 1 (with color illu., p. 71).

LITERATURE: Karl & Faber, München, 194th auction, Kunst Alter und Neuer Meister, December 2, 1997, lot 815 (with color illu.).
"Those pictures from the war occupy singular position in my art. They were made for very personal reasons to which I held on so strong as I couldn't understand everything else - a unique constellation in my art."
E. W. Nay, quote after: Aurel Scheibler, E. W. Nay. Catalog raisonné of oil paintings, vol. I, 1922-1951, p. 198.




97
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Der Abendruf, 1942.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800
Sold:
€ 65,000 / $ 69,550

(incl. surcharge)