Sale: 534 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 09. 2022 in Munich Lot 100

 

100
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Mutter, kleinen Jungen führend IV, 1944.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200

(incl. surcharge)
Mutter, kleinen Jungen führend IV. 1944.
Gouache.
Claesges 44-010. Signed and dated in lower right. Inscribed on the reverse. On firm wove paper. 23.7 x 15.4 cm (9.3 x 6 in), the full sheet.
[AM].
• Subtly differentiated gouache in remarkably expressive colors.
• The painting "Frau mit Kind“ (Scheibler 379) from 1947 is based on this pictorial conception.
• Gouaches from this year are in important public collections like the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Gerd Rosen, Berlin (1946).
Collection Herbert Kurz, Wolframs-Eschenbach.
Private collection Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay, Galerie Gerd Rosen, Berlin, May 1946, cat. no. 4.
Werke von Hansheinrich Palitzsch, Ernst Wilhem Nay, Karl Otto Götz und Hermann Glöckner, Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden, September 1947.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik 1935-1960, Fränkische Galerie, Nuremberg, January 10 - mid February 1961, cat. no. 38 (titled "Mutter und Kind“).




100
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Mutter, kleinen Jungen führend IV, 1944.
Gouache
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 40,000 / $ 43,200

(incl. surcharge)