Sale: 606 / Evening Sale, June 12. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000070
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126000070
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Spiele, 1951.
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.
126000070
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Spiele, 1951.
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
Spiele. 1951.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with the dimensions, as well as direction arrow on the stretcher. 100.5 x 125.3 cm (39.5 x 49.3 in).
• From the significant early phase of his “Fugal Pictures”.
• A vivid testament to Nay’s exploration of music as a central source of inspiration during this creative period.
• In its visual depth, the composition of the present work “Spiele” evokes associations to a musical fugue.
• Playful: The theme: red; the response: blue; the resonance: white and gray.
• “Fugale Bilder” are at, among others, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Museum Wiesbaden, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Bavarian State Painting Collection in Munich, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.
We are grateful to Dr. Brigitte Schlüter of the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation in Cologne for her kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne (with the stamp on the stretcher).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Galerie Haeseler, Munich (since 1987, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich).
Private Southern Germany (acquired from the above around 2000).
EXHIBITION: Abstrakte Maler der inneren Emigration, Landesmuseum, Mainz, February 24-March 31, 1985, cat. no. 48.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. 1: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, CR no. 533 (illustrated in color).
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, auction 115, 20th Century Art, June 1, 1987, lot 799 (illustrated, color plate).
1902 - 1968
Spiele. 1951.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with the dimensions, as well as direction arrow on the stretcher. 100.5 x 125.3 cm (39.5 x 49.3 in).
• From the significant early phase of his “Fugal Pictures”.
• A vivid testament to Nay’s exploration of music as a central source of inspiration during this creative period.
• In its visual depth, the composition of the present work “Spiele” evokes associations to a musical fugue.
• Playful: The theme: red; the response: blue; the resonance: white and gray.
• “Fugale Bilder” are at, among others, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Museum Wiesbaden, the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Bavarian State Painting Collection in Munich, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.
We are grateful to Dr. Brigitte Schlüter of the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation in Cologne for her kind expert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne (with the stamp on the stretcher).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Galerie Haeseler, Munich (since 1987, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich).
Private Southern Germany (acquired from the above around 2000).
EXHIBITION: Abstrakte Maler der inneren Emigration, Landesmuseum, Mainz, February 24-March 31, 1985, cat. no. 48.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. 1: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, CR no. 533 (illustrated in color).
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, auction 115, 20th Century Art, June 1, 1987, lot 799 (illustrated, color plate).
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