Lot 113
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113
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1954.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 29,210 / $ 33,007 (incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1954.
Gouache.
Claesges 54-008. Lower right signed and dated. On firm watercolor paper. 41.8 x 60.3 cm (16.4 x 23.7 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• One of the first works in which Nay found his legendary disk form, with which he began his important work phase of the "Disk Pictures" (1954-1962).
• Exceptional subtly modulated rhythm of graphic and geometric elements and disk shapes.
• Formerly part of the renowned Bernhard Sprengel Collection, Hanover.
• In 1955 and 1956, Nay exhibited his Disk Paintings at documenta I in Kassel and at the XXVIII. Biennale di Venezia.
PROVENANCE: Bernhard Sprengel Collection (1899-1985), Hanover.
Galerie Heseler, Munich.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 2014, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, lot 802).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, p. 25, no. 54-008 (color illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 283rd auction, June 9, 1990, lot 261 (fig., plate 21).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 420th auction, December 6, 2014, lot 802 (color illu.).
Gouache.
Claesges 54-008. Lower right signed and dated. On firm watercolor paper. 41.8 x 60.3 cm (16.4 x 23.7 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• One of the first works in which Nay found his legendary disk form, with which he began his important work phase of the "Disk Pictures" (1954-1962).
• Exceptional subtly modulated rhythm of graphic and geometric elements and disk shapes.
• Formerly part of the renowned Bernhard Sprengel Collection, Hanover.
• In 1955 and 1956, Nay exhibited his Disk Paintings at documenta I in Kassel and at the XXVIII. Biennale di Venezia.
PROVENANCE: Bernhard Sprengel Collection (1899-1985), Hanover.
Galerie Heseler, Munich.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg (acquired from the above in 2014, Ketterer Kunst, Munich, lot 802).
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, p. 25, no. 54-008 (color illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 283rd auction, June 9, 1990, lot 261 (fig., plate 21).
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 420th auction, December 6, 2014, lot 802 (color illu.).
113
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1954.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 29,210 / $ 33,007 (incl. surcharge)
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