Die Lampe. 1950.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in lower right. Inscribed with a personal dedication by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 70 x 80 cm (27.5 x 31.4 in).

There is a color lithograph of the same subject (Gabler 27) and a preliminary gouache (CR 49-009).
• Part of the Ottomar Domnick Collection for many years.
• From the “Fugal Paintings” series.
• A colorful testimony to Nay's exploration of music as a central source of inspiration typical of this creative period.

PROVENANCE: Prof. Ottomar Domnick Collection, Stuttgart.
Private collection Hesse (since 1990).
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: la collection du dr. o. domnick, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, cat. no. 100.

LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1 (1922-1951), Cologne 1990, no. 528 (illu. in color).
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Lempertz, Cologne, auction 515, Modern Art, April 28/29, 1972, lot 795 (here: Komposition).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, auction 10, Modern Art, November 26-28, 1973, lot 961 (illu. on p. 148).
Karlheinz Gabler, Bericht über die Zeichnungen, in: Nay - Zeichnungen, Frankfurt a. Main 1976, pp. 8f.
Friedrich Weltzien, E. W. Nay. Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 275.