Vente: 600 / Evening Sale 05 décembre 2025 à Munich 
Lot 125001038
Lot 125001038 
125001038
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Helle Chromatik, 1962.
Oil on canvas
Estimation: € 400,000 / $ 468,000
Les informations sur la commission d´achat, les taxes et le droit de suite sont disponibles quatre semaines avant la vente.
Helle Chromatik. 1962.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right, signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the stretcher, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and the dimensions. Also with the artist's typographically inscribed address label on the stretcher. 200 x 140 cm (78.7 x 55.1 in). [CH].
• Subtly nuanced modulation of bold and delicate colors in an airy style and large format.
• From Nay's most famous period of the “Scheibenbilder” (Disk Pictures, 1954-1962).
• The paintings from the early 1960s are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• “ Disk Paintings” can be found in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the National Gallery Berlin, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
• The artist exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1964, and in the documenta in Kassel in 1955, 1959, and 1964.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin since 1984.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Borken.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1984).
EXHIBITION: 124. Frühjahrsausstellung (Spring Exhibition), Kunstverein Hanover, March 10–April 14, 1963, cat. no. 107.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, May 24–June 21, 1964, cat. no. 22.
E. W. Nay. Paintings 1955–1964, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, September 26–October 25, 1964; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, November 2–30, 1964; Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Frankfurt am Main, January 9–February 14, 1965, cat. no. 30 (with an exhibition label on the stretcher).
Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, 1984, cat. no. 15 (color plate).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 2: 1952–1968, Cologne 1990, p. 225, CRN no. 1021 (illustrated in color).
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Eva Maria Demisch, Die Wandlung des Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Zum Tod eines Malers, der ein Rhapsode der Farben war, in: FAZ, Frankfurt am Main, no. 86, April 10, 1968, p. 24.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Auction 254, Modern Art, June 8–9, 1984, lot 1180 (with color plate, no. 50).
Werner Haftmann, E. W. Nay, Cologne 1991, p. 240.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right, signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the stretcher, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and the dimensions. Also with the artist's typographically inscribed address label on the stretcher. 200 x 140 cm (78.7 x 55.1 in). [CH].
• Subtly nuanced modulation of bold and delicate colors in an airy style and large format.
• From Nay's most famous period of the “Scheibenbilder” (Disk Pictures, 1954-1962).
• The paintings from the early 1960s are among the most sought-after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• “ Disk Paintings” can be found in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the National Gallery Berlin, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
• The artist exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 1956 and 1964, and in the documenta in Kassel in 1955, 1959, and 1964.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin since 1984.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Borken.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired in 1984).
EXHIBITION: 124. Frühjahrsausstellung (Spring Exhibition), Kunstverein Hanover, March 10–April 14, 1963, cat. no. 107.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, May 24–June 21, 1964, cat. no. 22.
E. W. Nay. Paintings 1955–1964, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, September 26–October 25, 1964; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, November 2–30, 1964; Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Frankfurt am Main, January 9–February 14, 1965, cat. no. 30 (with an exhibition label on the stretcher).
Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, 1984, cat. no. 15 (color plate).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 2: 1952–1968, Cologne 1990, p. 225, CRN no. 1021 (illustrated in color).
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Eva Maria Demisch, Die Wandlung des Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Zum Tod eines Malers, der ein Rhapsode der Farben war, in: FAZ, Frankfurt am Main, no. 86, April 10, 1968, p. 24.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, Auction 254, Modern Art, June 8–9, 1984, lot 1180 (with color plate, no. 50).
Werner Haftmann, E. W. Nay, Cologne 1991, p. 240.
125001038
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Helle Chromatik, 1962.
Oil on canvas
Estimation: € 400,000 / $ 468,000
Les informations sur la commission d´achat, les taxes et le droit de suite sont disponibles quatre semaines avant la vente.