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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1954.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,750 Sold:
€ 29,210 / $ 33,591 (incl. surcharge)
113
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1954.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,750 Sold:
€ 29,210 / $ 33,591 (incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1954.
Gouache.
Claesges 54-008. Lower right signed and dated. On firm watercolor paper. 41.8 x 60.3 cm (16.4 x 23.7 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• One of the first works in which Nay found his legendary disk form, with which he began his important work phase of the "Disk Pictures" (1954-1962).
• Exceptional subtly modulated rhythm of graphic and geometric elements and disk shapes.
• Formerly part of the renowned Bernhard Sprengel Collection, Hanover.
• In 1955 and 1956, Nay exhibited his Disk Paintings at documenta I in Kassel and at the XXVIII. Biennale di Venezia.
PROVENANCE: Bernhard Sprengel Collection (1899-1985), Hanover.
Galerie Heseler, Munich.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 2014, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, lot 802).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, p. 25, no. 54-008 (color illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 283rd auction, June 9, 1990, lot 261 (fig., plate 21).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 420th auction, December 6, 2014, lot 802 (color illu.).
Gouache.
Claesges 54-008. Lower right signed and dated. On firm watercolor paper. 41.8 x 60.3 cm (16.4 x 23.7 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• One of the first works in which Nay found his legendary disk form, with which he began his important work phase of the "Disk Pictures" (1954-1962).
• Exceptional subtly modulated rhythm of graphic and geometric elements and disk shapes.
• Formerly part of the renowned Bernhard Sprengel Collection, Hanover.
• In 1955 and 1956, Nay exhibited his Disk Paintings at documenta I in Kassel and at the XXVIII. Biennale di Venezia.
PROVENANCE: Bernhard Sprengel Collection (1899-1985), Hanover.
Galerie Heseler, Munich.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 2014, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, lot 802).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, p. 25, no. 54-008 (color illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 283rd auction, June 9, 1990, lot 261 (fig., plate 21).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 420th auction, December 6, 2014, lot 802 (color illu.).
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