Lot 231 D

The hallucinating influences of Expressionism – still prevalent in the ‘Hekate’ pictures – step into the background in favour of a newly achieved clarity. Whilst monochrome surfaces and black geometric elements were combined with areas of colour in the works from 1948, the black line receeds completely into the background in this work from 1956. What remains of Nay’s inner dialogue with synthetic Cubism, in particular the works of Juan Gris, is the concentration of colour, which reaches its brilliant climax in the disc paintings.