Sale: 553 / Contemporary Day Sale, June 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 109


109
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lampe, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000

 
$ 64,200 - 85,600

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Lampe. 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed “XIX 9.” on the stretcher. Inscribed “495” by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 59 x 71 cm (23.2 x 27.9 in). [CH].


• The catalogue raisonné mentions this work as the first in the series of the “Fugal Paintings”.
• With this colorful work and the subsequent work group, Nay achieved rhythmic balance between figuration and abstraction, order and movement.
• Formerly part of the collection of the Berlin gallerist Eberhard Seel, 1950-1972 managing director of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, collector and close friend of the artist.
• In 1952 the work was part of the early retrospective at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.
• The same year he created a color lithograph and a gouache of the same subject, albeit in different colors.
• Early professional highlights: One year before and one year after this work was made, E. W. Nay participated in the Biennale di Venezia (1948 and 1950)
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PROVENANCE: Eberhard Seel Collection (1900-1978), Berlin/Cologne.
Private collection, Cologne.
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (1995).
Private collection Hesse.
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay. Arbeiten der Jahre 1924-1952. Retrospektive, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 17 - June 15, 1952, cat. no. 114 (illu.).

LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1 (1922-1951), Cologne 1990, no. 456 (illu. in colors).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 542nd auction, December 4, 1974, p. 99, lot 499 ( illu. in color on p. 65, plate III).
Karlheinz Gabler, Bericht über die Zeichnungen, in: exhib. cat. Nay. Zeichnungen, Jahrhunderthalle, Höchst 1976, pp. 8f.
Friedrich Weltzien, E. W. Nay. Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 275.

Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 13.43 h +/- 20 min.





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Regular taxation:
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