Vente: 433 / Post War I 11 juin 2016 à Munich Lot 906

 

906
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1960.
Watercolor
Estimation:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Résultat:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000

( frais d'adjudication compris)
Ohne Titel. 1960.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated lower right. On firm paper. 41.8 x 60.2 cm (16.4 x 23.7 in), the full sheet.
[EL].

The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné of works on paper, compiled by Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler and Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Cologne.

PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg.
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 254, 9 June, 1984, lot 1186, illu. plate 247.
Private collection Northern Germany.



Works from Nay's last years of creation are characterized by a concentration of color and form. He realizes an ultimate degree of tension in both the composition, as well as the colors, which also becomes obvious in this watercolor. The magical red, which Nay increasingly used at that time, gives intensity to the work's expression. Nay adds the eye motif to the dwindling discs and thus reinvents them. This work is especially appealing for the interplay of the red and blue shades, which, mysterious and demanding at the same time, evoke a world in which romantic and boldness meet.



906
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Ohne Titel, 1960.
Watercolor
Estimation:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000
Résultat:
€ 25,000 / $ 27,000

( frais d'adjudication compris)