Sale: 553 / Contemporary Day Sale, June 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 108


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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Die Lampe, 1950.
Oil on canvas
Post auction sale: € 60,000 / $ 63,000
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Die Lampe. 1950.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Inscribed with a personal dedication by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 70 x 80 cm (27.5 x 31.4 in).

There is a color lithograph of the same subject (Gabler 27) and a preliminary gouache (CR 49-009).

• Part of the Ottomar Domnick Collection for many years.
• From the “Fugal Paintings” series.
• A colorful testimony to Nay's exploration of music as a central source of inspiration typical of this creative period
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PROVENANCE: Prof. Ottomar Domnick Collection, Stuttgart.
Private collection Hesse (since 1990).
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: la collection du dr. o. domnick,Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, January 17 - March 2, 1953 and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, March 7 - 29, 1953, cat. no. 100.

LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1 (1922-1951), Cologne 1990, no. 528 (illu. in color).
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Lempertz, Cologne, auction 515, Modern Art, April 28/29, 1972, lot 795 (here: Komposition).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, auction 10, Modern Art, November 26-28, 1973, lot 961 (illu. on p. 148).
Karlheinz Gabler, Bericht über die Zeichnungen, in: Nay - Zeichnungen, Frankfurt a. Main 1976, pp. 8f.
Friedrich Weltzien, E. W. Nay. Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 275.





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Ernst Wilhelm Nay "Die Lampe"
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Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
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Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
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another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
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