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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos), 1964.
Watercolor
Starting bid: € 16,000 / $ 18,560
78
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos), 1964.
Watercolor
Starting bid: € 16,000 / $ 18,560
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1902 - 1968
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos). 1964.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in the lower left. On firm paper. 60 x 42 cm (23.6 x 16.5 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• A remarkably powerful watercolor from the series entitled “Augenbilder” (The Eye Pictures) (1963/64).
• Privately owned since its creation; offered on the international auction market for the first time.
• In the year the work was created, Nay participated in documenta III in Kassel with three large-scale “Augenbilder".
The work is listed under the number “WV-C 64-024.1” in Dr. Magdalene Claesges’ (Cologne) periodically updated and regularly expanded (online) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay’s works on paper. We would like to express our gratitude for the kind assistance.
PROVENANCE: The artist’s studio.
Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (1964).
Private collection, Southern Germany.
In the family’s possession ever since.
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay— Aquarelle von 1963 und 1964, Galerie Günther Franke at the Arco-Palais, Munich, July 31–August 29, 1964 (on a sales list, the sheet is titled “1964/my-11” (item 6). The short form “my” refers to the place where the watercolor was created: Mykonos, Greece).
In good condition. The paper is very slightly wavy due to the printing process. Very few small brown spots. Remnants of an old mount on the reverse.
To view artwork condition please click on the high-definition images and use the zoom function.
1902 - 1968
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos). 1964.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in the lower left. On firm paper. 60 x 42 cm (23.6 x 16.5 in), the full sheet.
[AR].
• A remarkably powerful watercolor from the series entitled “Augenbilder” (The Eye Pictures) (1963/64).
• Privately owned since its creation; offered on the international auction market for the first time.
• In the year the work was created, Nay participated in documenta III in Kassel with three large-scale “Augenbilder".
The work is listed under the number “WV-C 64-024.1” in Dr. Magdalene Claesges’ (Cologne) periodically updated and regularly expanded (online) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay’s works on paper. We would like to express our gratitude for the kind assistance.
PROVENANCE: The artist’s studio.
Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (1964).
Private collection, Southern Germany.
In the family’s possession ever since.
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay— Aquarelle von 1963 und 1964, Galerie Günther Franke at the Arco-Palais, Munich, July 31–August 29, 1964 (on a sales list, the sheet is titled “1964/my-11” (item 6). The short form “my” refers to the place where the watercolor was created: Mykonos, Greece).
In good condition. The paper is very slightly wavy due to the printing process. Very few small brown spots. Remnants of an old mount on the reverse.
To view artwork condition please click on the high-definition images and use the zoom function.
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