Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 124000920
Lot 124000920 
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124000920
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Artistenpaar, 1945.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
$ 19,440 - 25,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Artistenpaar. 1945.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the upper left. 28 x 18 cm (11 x 7 in). [CH].
• From the important series of “Hekate Pictures,” which mark the transition from figuration to abstraction in E. W. Nay's oeuvre.
• A version created shortly thereafter is now in the Hegenbarth Collection, Berlin (1946, cat. rais. no. 362).
• Nay translates the physiognomy of the human body into almost geometric forms in a sophisticated and imaginative way.
• Works from this creative period are part of notable museum collections, including the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
The work will be included as an addendum in the catalogue raisonné of oil paintings under number 342.1. We are grateful to Aurel Scheibler and Dr. Brigitte Schlüter, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, Cologne, for their kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Dr. Mutter Collection, Bad Säckingen.
Private collection, South Germany (inherited from the above).
In family ownership ever since.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the upper left. 28 x 18 cm (11 x 7 in). [CH].
• From the important series of “Hekate Pictures,” which mark the transition from figuration to abstraction in E. W. Nay's oeuvre.
• A version created shortly thereafter is now in the Hegenbarth Collection, Berlin (1946, cat. rais. no. 362).
• Nay translates the physiognomy of the human body into almost geometric forms in a sophisticated and imaginative way.
• Works from this creative period are part of notable museum collections, including the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
The work will be included as an addendum in the catalogue raisonné of oil paintings under number 342.1. We are grateful to Aurel Scheibler and Dr. Brigitte Schlüter, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, Cologne, for their kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Dr. Mutter Collection, Bad Säckingen.
Private collection, South Germany (inherited from the above).
In family ownership ever since.
124000920
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Artistenpaar, 1945.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
$ 19,440 - 25,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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