Lot 403 D

''With the eye pictures, Nay opens up the view into the cosmos, onto the phenomena themselves which had initially been intended as analogies to music. His colours, guided by the vivid and simple sign of the eye, gain unforseen spaces and hitherto unimaginable radiance. The frequent primary colours in the 'Augenbilder' lend the painting the capacity to expand the body of the picture to infinity. That which was already suggested in the symbolically magical images, now becomes a glimpse into the cosmos of painting, which for its part reflects the space of the observer. Since the disc images, the front and the back as the theme of the pictorial structure is interpreted as a look into the room, giving the viewer a feeling of being touched by the qualites of this space, for which the eye depicts the descriptive formula.'' (Siegfried Gohr, Einführung in das Werk von E.W. Nay, in: Elisabeth Scheibler-Nay (ed.), Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde Band, 1, 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, p.23)