Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 124000990
Lot 124000990 
124000990
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1959.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000
$ 16,200 - 21,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Ohne Titel. 1959.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated "Nay 59 y" in the lower right. On watercolor paper. 42 x 60.2 cm (16.5 x 23.7 in), the full sheet.
The suffix “y” in the signature refers to the place of origin of the watercolor: Mykonos, Greece. [MH].
• From Nay's most famous work phase, the “Disk Pictures”, which he created from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.
• The “Disk Pictures” are among the most sought-after works by Ernst Wilhelm Nay on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Watercolors from this series are part of the collections of the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
The work is included in the (online) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay's works on paper, which is regularly updated by Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Cologne. We would like to thank Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, for the kind information.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Cologne.
Private collection, Rhineland (inherited from the above).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue Raisonné. Watercolors - Gouaches - Drawings, Vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, Cat. No. 59-042 (illustrated in color).
Watercolor.
Signed and dated "Nay 59 y" in the lower right. On watercolor paper. 42 x 60.2 cm (16.5 x 23.7 in), the full sheet.
The suffix “y” in the signature refers to the place of origin of the watercolor: Mykonos, Greece. [MH].
• From Nay's most famous work phase, the “Disk Pictures”, which he created from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.
• The “Disk Pictures” are among the most sought-after works by Ernst Wilhelm Nay on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Watercolors from this series are part of the collections of the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
The work is included in the (online) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay's works on paper, which is regularly updated by Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Cologne. We would like to thank Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, for the kind information.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Cologne.
Private collection, Rhineland (inherited from the above).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue Raisonné. Watercolors - Gouaches - Drawings, Vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, Cat. No. 59-042 (illustrated in color).
124000990
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1959.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 15,000 - 20,000
$ 16,200 - 21,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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