Sale: 606 / Evening Sale, June 12. 2026 in Munich → Lot 125001519
125001519
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Smaragd in Grau, 1956.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 120,000 - 180,000
$ 138,000 - 207,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
125001519
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Smaragd in Grau, 1956.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 120,000 - 180,000
$ 138,000 - 207,000
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1902 - 1968
Smaragd in Grau. 1956.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with the direction on the reverse of the stretcher. 100 x 125 cm (39.3 x 49.2 in).
[MH].
• From the key group “Scheibenbilder” (Disk Paintings).
• The painting captivates with its striking combination of deep emerald green and a gray undertone.
• In the year the work was created, the artist was represented with other disk pictures at the Venice Biennale, as well as in the major retrospective “German Art of the 20th Century” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York a year later.
We are grateful to Dr. Brigitte Schlüter of the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation in Cologne for her kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Springer Gallery, Berlin, 1956.
Private collection, England.
Private collection, Hesse (since 1994, Galerie Orangerie Reinz, Cologne).
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay, Galerie Springer, Berlin, September 1-30, 1956, cat. no. 7.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 2: 1952–1968, Cologne 1990, cat. no. 793 (illustrated in color)
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Franziska Müller, Ernst Wilhelm Nays “Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe” als Künstlertheorie und Zeitzeugnis, Marburg 2016, p. 187.
1902 - 1968
Smaragd in Grau. 1956.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with the direction on the reverse of the stretcher. 100 x 125 cm (39.3 x 49.2 in).
[MH].
• From the key group “Scheibenbilder” (Disk Paintings).
• The painting captivates with its striking combination of deep emerald green and a gray undertone.
• In the year the work was created, the artist was represented with other disk pictures at the Venice Biennale, as well as in the major retrospective “German Art of the 20th Century” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York a year later.
We are grateful to Dr. Brigitte Schlüter of the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation in Cologne for her kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Springer Gallery, Berlin, 1956.
Private collection, England.
Private collection, Hesse (since 1994, Galerie Orangerie Reinz, Cologne).
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay, Galerie Springer, Berlin, September 1-30, 1956, cat. no. 7.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue Raisonné of Oil Paintings, vol. 2: 1952–1968, Cologne 1990, cat. no. 793 (illustrated in color)
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Franziska Müller, Ernst Wilhelm Nays “Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe” als Künstlertheorie und Zeitzeugnis, Marburg 2016, p. 187.
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