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124000981
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Sonnenzirkel, 1956.
Olio su tela
Stima: € 400,000 / $ 440,000
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Sonnenzirkel. 1956.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Dated and titled on the stretcher. 80 x 200 cm (31.4 x 78.7 in). [JS].
• Early work from the famous "Scheibenbilder" ("Disc Pictures") series boasting vibrant colors.
• Progressive all-over painting: Nay made his international breakthrough with his "Scheibenbilder".
• In the year it was created, Nay was featured in the Venice Biennale; the following year, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, showed Nay's "Scheibenbilder" in the exhibition "German Art of the Twentieth Century".
• In 2002, “Sonnenzirkel” was exhibited in the major Nay retrospective at the Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich and at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
• Fresh on the market, this work from the artist's heyday has a closed provenance.
• Other works from this important era can be found in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Private collection Germany (since 1998, acquired from the estate).
EXHIBITION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Neues Rathaus, Weiden (Upper Palatinate) 1995.
Nay - Variationen. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 2002, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn 2002/03, cat. no. C 74, (illustrated on p. 150).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, no. 811 (illustrated in color)
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Franziska Müller, Ernst Wilhelm Nay's `Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe`als Künstlertheorie und Zeitzeugnis. Marburg 2016, p. 157, note 557.
Heinrich Klotz, Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert. Moderne, Postmoderne, Zweite Moderne, Munich 1994, p. 45.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Dated and titled on the stretcher. 80 x 200 cm (31.4 x 78.7 in). [JS].
• Early work from the famous "Scheibenbilder" ("Disc Pictures") series boasting vibrant colors.
• Progressive all-over painting: Nay made his international breakthrough with his "Scheibenbilder".
• In the year it was created, Nay was featured in the Venice Biennale; the following year, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, showed Nay's "Scheibenbilder" in the exhibition "German Art of the Twentieth Century".
• In 2002, “Sonnenzirkel” was exhibited in the major Nay retrospective at the Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich and at the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
• Fresh on the market, this work from the artist's heyday has a closed provenance.
• Other works from this important era can be found in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate.
Private collection Germany (since 1998, acquired from the estate).
EXHIBITION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Neues Rathaus, Weiden (Upper Palatinate) 1995.
Nay - Variationen. Retrospektive zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich 2002, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn 2002/03, cat. no. C 74, (illustrated on p. 150).
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1: 1922-1951, Cologne 1990, no. 811 (illustrated in color)
- -
Franziska Müller, Ernst Wilhelm Nay's `Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe`als Künstlertheorie und Zeitzeugnis. Marburg 2016, p. 157, note 557.
Heinrich Klotz, Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert. Moderne, Postmoderne, Zweite Moderne, Munich 1994, p. 45.
124000981
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Sonnenzirkel, 1956.
Olio su tela
Stima: € 400,000 / $ 440,000
Le informationi sulla commissione, le tasse e il diritto di seguito saranno disponibili quattro settimane prima dell´asta.