Lot 105
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105
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1964.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 29,000 Sold:
€ 40,640 / $ 47,142 (incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1964.
Watercolor.
Inscribed with a direction arrow on the reverse. On firm watercolor paper. 39.6 x 30.2 cm (15.5 x 11.8 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• From the group of the "Augenbilder" ("Eye Pictures", 1963-64).
• Particularly high-contrast watercolor, the blank spaces add a particularly airy effect.
• Overpainting his hitherto key motif of the disk with spindles, he attained the "Eye" motif.
• In the year the work was made, Nay showed three large "Eye Pictures" at documenta III in Kassel.
PROVENANCE: Christoph Scheibler Collection, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Arbeiten auf Papier, Michael Werner Kunsthandel, Cologne, May 11 - July 20, 2019.
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, no. 64-013 (illu. in color).
Watercolor.
Inscribed with a direction arrow on the reverse. On firm watercolor paper. 39.6 x 30.2 cm (15.5 x 11.8 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• From the group of the "Augenbilder" ("Eye Pictures", 1963-64).
• Particularly high-contrast watercolor, the blank spaces add a particularly airy effect.
• Overpainting his hitherto key motif of the disk with spindles, he attained the "Eye" motif.
• In the year the work was made, Nay showed three large "Eye Pictures" at documenta III in Kassel.
PROVENANCE: Christoph Scheibler Collection, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.
EXHIBITION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Arbeiten auf Papier, Michael Werner Kunsthandel, Cologne, May 11 - July 20, 2019.
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, no. 64-013 (illu. in color).
105
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1964.
Watercolor
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 29,000 Sold:
€ 40,640 / $ 47,142 (incl. surcharge)
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