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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Lot 46

Motion, 1962

  • Oil on canvas
  • 59.1 x78.7 in (150.0 x 200.0 cm)
Estimate:

€ 500,000 - 700,000

Auction: 21 days

As of May 20, 2026

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled and with a direction arrow on the reverse. 150 x 200 cm.

• A large, particularly dynamic painting from the significant “Disk Paintings” period (1954-1962).
• Rhythmic color choreography: Circular forms (“disks”) dance across the canvas in high-contrast primary colors (red, blue, yellow)—a visual score of movement and energy.
• From the private collection of his important patron, the renowned gallery owner Günther Franke (1900-1976).
• Works from the “Scheibenbilder” series are at, among others, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1961), the Nationalgalerie Berlin (1957), and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (1962).
We are grateful to Dr. Brigitte Schlüter, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, Cologne, for her kind expert advice.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol.2: 1952-1968, Cologne 1990, CR no. 1028 (illustrated in color). -- Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sept. 25, 1963 (illustrated) Christian Otto Frenzel, Farbe allein genügt nicht, in: Hamburger Abendblatt, no. 226, Sept. 28, 1964, p. 16 50 Jahre Galerie Günther Franke. Nay - Bilder, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung und Galerie Günther Franke, Munich 1973, p. 88 (illustrated on p. 89). Werner Haftmann, E. W. Nay, Cologne 1991, p. 240. Matthias Gegner, Rhythmische Farborgien. Ernst Wilhelm Nay bei Ketterer und Karl & Faber, in: Kunst und Auktionen, no. 19, Berlin 2023, pp. 16-17. Brita Sachs, Gefragt ist die höchste Qualität, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 17, 2023, p. 15. Brita Sachs, Bildgewordene Aufbruchstimmung, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 3, 2023, p. 13.

E. W. Nay. Sechzehn große Bilder, Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, June 2-mid-July 1962, cat. no. 14. Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Gemälde 1955-1964, Kunstverein Hamburg / Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe / Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Frankfurt am Main, September 26, 1964-February 14, 1965, cat. no. 35 (color plate 15, with a label on the back of the stretcher). Günter Franke Collection. Part 1, Kunstverein, Neue Residenz Bamberg, May 8-June 12, 1966, probably on p. 149. 50 Jahre Galerie Günther Franke. Nay - Bilder, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen aus der Sammlung und Galerie Günther Franke, Munich, Oct. 20-Dec. 22, 1973, cat. no. 11. Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Arbeiten aus Privatbesitz, Neues Rathaus, Weiden (Upper Palatinate), Oct. 1-Nov. 5, 1995. Abstrakte Kunst, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, May 19-July 9, 2000, p. 75 (illustrated on p. 149). Rupprecht Matthies, Peter Zimmermann, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Malereis, Adolf Luther, Skulpturen, und Werke weiterer Künstler, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Jan. 31-Mar. 15, 2003

Günther Franke Collection, Munich. Sophie Franke, Munich (1976, inherited from the above) Private collection, Hesse. Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (1998, acquired from the above via Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich). Private collection, Switzerland (since 2023)

Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
  • Auction : Jun 12, 2026
  • Auction number: 606
  • Auction name: Evening Sale

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