Sale: 548 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, Dec. 08. 2023 in Munich Lot 102


102
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Menschenschicksale II, 1939.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000

 
$ 42,000 - 63,000

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Menschenschicksale II. 1939.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Several times inscribed "64" on the reverse. 50.5 x 75.4 cm (19.8 x 29.6 in).
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• Wonderfully rhythmic and dynamic beach picture, made a year after the Lofoten pictures.
• The fusion of figure and nature is reminiscent of the Nordic paintings, however, with the milder ochre and brown tones, it develops an independent, more earthbound effect.
• In the year it was made, Nay traveled to the Black Sea in Bulgaria, but had to interrupt his stay prematurely due to the outbreak of war.
• Exhibited in the posthumous Nay retrospective on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday in Munich and Bonn in 2002
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PROVENANCE: Elly Nay, Berlin.
Eberhard Seel, Berlin and Cologne.
Privately-owned.
Private collection Northern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Nay-Atelieraufstellung, 1940, no. 64 (several times inscribed "64" on the reverse).
Das frühe Bild - Malerei und Plastik, Sonderausstellung, Deutscher Künstlerbund, 10. Ausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 18 - December 11, 1960, cat. no. 336.
Nay - Variationen. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, September 27 - November 24, 2002; Kunstmuseum Bonn, December 19, 2002 - February 16, 2003, cat. no. B 22 (color illu. p. 91).

LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler/Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. I: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, no. 271 (color illu.).
Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 85th auction, May 28, 2005, lot 6776 (color illu.).

Called up: December 8, 2023 - ca. 13.02 h +/- 20 min.





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Regular taxation:
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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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