ID 1381083
Lot 340 | ERNST WILHELM NAY (1902-1968)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
Purpur und Orange (Purple and Orange)
signed and dated 'NAY 58' (lower right); signed, titled and dated twice 'NAY 1958 "Púrpúr und Orange" 1958' (on the stretcher); signed and dated 'Nay : 58' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 31 7/8in. (100 x 81cm.)
Painted in 1958
Provenance
Private Collection, Bremen.
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1960).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
A. Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Band II 1952-1968, Cologne 1990, no. 897 (illustrated, p. 164).
Exhibited
Darmstadt, Kunstverein Darmstadt, Rot im Bild, 1960, no. 45 (illustrated, unpaged).
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Moderne Malerei - Frankfurter Privatbesitz, 1963, no. 99 (illustrated, unpaged).
| Artist: | Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902 - 1968) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902 - 1968) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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