Lot 124000373 
124000373
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lampe, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 64,200 - 85,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Lampe. 1949.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed “XIX 9.” on the stretcher. Inscribed “495” by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 59 x 71 cm (23.2 x 27.9 in). [CH].
• The catalogue raisonné mentions this work as the first in the series of the “Fugal Paintings”.
• With this colorful work and the subsequent work group, Nay achieved rhythmic balance between figuration and abstraction, order and movement.
• Formerly part of the collection of the Berlin gallerist Eberhard Seel, 1950-1972 managing director of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, collector and close friend of the artist.
• In 1952 the work was part of the early retrospective at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.
• The same year he created a color lithograph and a gouache of the same subject, albeit in different colors.
• Early professional highlights: One year before and one year after this work was made, E. W. Nay participated in the Biennale di Venezia (1948 and 1950).
PROVENANCE: Eberhard Seel Collection (1900-1978), Berlin/Cologne.
Private collection, Cologne.
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (1995).
Private collection Hesse.
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay. Arbeiten der Jahre 1924-1952. Retrospektive, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 17 - June 15, 1952, cat. no. 114 (illu.).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1 (1922-1951), Cologne 1990, no. 456 (illu. in colors).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 542nd auction, December 4, 1974, p. 99, lot 499 ( illu. in color on p. 65, plate III).
Karlheinz Gabler, Bericht über die Zeichnungen, in: exhib. cat. Nay. Zeichnungen, Jahrhunderthalle, Höchst 1976, pp. 8f.
Friedrich Weltzien, E. W. Nay. Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 275.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed “XIX 9.” on the stretcher. Inscribed “495” by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 59 x 71 cm (23.2 x 27.9 in). [CH].
• The catalogue raisonné mentions this work as the first in the series of the “Fugal Paintings”.
• With this colorful work and the subsequent work group, Nay achieved rhythmic balance between figuration and abstraction, order and movement.
• Formerly part of the collection of the Berlin gallerist Eberhard Seel, 1950-1972 managing director of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, collector and close friend of the artist.
• In 1952 the work was part of the early retrospective at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.
• The same year he created a color lithograph and a gouache of the same subject, albeit in different colors.
• Early professional highlights: One year before and one year after this work was made, E. W. Nay participated in the Biennale di Venezia (1948 and 1950).
PROVENANCE: Eberhard Seel Collection (1900-1978), Berlin/Cologne.
Private collection, Cologne.
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (1995).
Private collection Hesse.
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay. Arbeiten der Jahre 1924-1952. Retrospektive, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 17 - June 15, 1952, cat. no. 114 (illu.).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1 (1922-1951), Cologne 1990, no. 456 (illu. in colors).
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Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 542nd auction, December 4, 1974, p. 99, lot 499 ( illu. in color on p. 65, plate III).
Karlheinz Gabler, Bericht über die Zeichnungen, in: exhib. cat. Nay. Zeichnungen, Jahrhunderthalle, Höchst 1976, pp. 8f.
Friedrich Weltzien, E. W. Nay. Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 275.
124000373
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lampe, 1949.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 64,200 - 85,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
