Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Halb Gelb - Halb Blau - image-1

Lot 432 D

Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Halb Gelb - Halb Blau

Auction 1143 - overview Cologne
30.11.2019, 11:30 - Modern Art II
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 22.320 € (incl. premium)

Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Halb Gelb - Halb Blau
1965

Watercolour on watercolour paper 60.3 x 42 cm Framed under glass. Signed, dated, and inscribed 'Nay 65 K' in pencil lower right. - Few minute foxmarks.

One of two watercolour versions of the eponymous oil painting from 1965 (see Claesges 65-127 and Scheibler 1162). The inscription "K" behind the signature and dating refers to the place of origin, Kreta (Crete).

Catalogue Raisonné

Claesges 65-128

Provenance

Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (1965); Alice and Otto Schrag Collection, Baden-Baden; Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer Munich, auction 141, Alice and Otto Schrag Collection, 30 May 1989, lot 202; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia