Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Untitled - image-1

Lot 228 D

Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Untitled

Auction 1201 - overview Cologne
02.06.2022, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 22.680 € (incl. premium)

Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Untitled
1948

Gouache and watercolour on watercolour laid paper. 31.7 x 19.2 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Nay 48' lower left in pencil. - The paper faintly browned, verso with remnants of old mounting.

1948 proved to be a productive year for Ernst Wilhelm Nay. In preparation for his exhibition in Galerie Günther Franke in Munich, the artist had explored new levels of his pictorial thinking. As always – during critical turning points in his creativity – Nay was aware of this new orientation and had resisted, or self-defined, the modernist or abstract tendencies which many other German artists followed. The black line in particular became important, as framework, sounding block, and in its psychographic quality.

Catalogue Raisonné

Not recorded by Claesges/Schlüter/Elger-Machova

Certificate

We would like to thank Magdalena Claesges and Brigitte Schlüter, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Stiftung, Cologne, for kind information. The work will be included in the supplement of the catalogue raisonné under no. 48-045.1.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist (1950s); thenceforth family property, Rhineland