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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Lot 35
Figurale - Eta, 1949
Oil on canvas

27.8 x 35.4 in (70.6 x 90.0 cm)
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Lot 35
Figurale - Eta, 1949
Oil on canvas
27.8 x 35.4 in (70.6 x 90.0 cm)
Estimate:
€ 150,000 - 250,000
Auction: 16 days

Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co KG

City: Munich
Auction: Jun 06, 2025
Auction number: 590
Auction name: Evening Sale
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Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left corner, signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the stretcher. 70.6 x 90 cm.

• Outstanding testimony to Nay's engagement with music as a central source of inspiration during this brief creative period.
• 1949: Ernst Wilhelm Nay conceived his “Fugal Pictures” after his early expressive works.
• Full of musical associations, “Figurale - Eta” intuitively resembles a melody.
• A poem of form and color: areas of color are not only visual elements but also convey emotional and rhythmic tension.
• Exhibited in the first Nay retrospective at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hanover in 1950, just one year after its creation.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raissonné of oil paintings, vol. 1: 1922-1951, *Cologne 1990, cat. no. 486 (illustrated in color) - - Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 254th auction, June 8& 9, 1984, lot 1177a (illustrated in color on plate 47).
E. W. Nay, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, April 2 - May 7, 1950, cat. no. 56. Neue Rheinische Secession Düsseldorf, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Nov. 1 - Dec. 24, 1950, cat. no. 149. Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Die Hofheimer Jahre 1945-1951, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt a. Main, Feb. 24 - May 23, 1994 / Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, June 9 - August 21, 1994, cat. no. 47 (with the label on the reverse of the stretcher)
Private collection, North Germany (since 1984, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg). Private collection, North Germany (since 2022)
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
Lot Details
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left corner, signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the stretcher. 70.6 x 90 cm.

• Outstanding testimony to Nay's engagement with music as a central source of inspiration during this brief creative period.
• 1949: Ernst Wilhelm Nay conceived his “Fugal Pictures” after his early expressive works.
• Full of musical associations, “Figurale - Eta” intuitively resembles a melody.
• A poem of form and color: areas of color are not only visual elements but also convey emotional and rhythmic tension.
• Exhibited in the first Nay retrospective at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hanover in 1950, just one year after its creation.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raissonné of oil paintings, vol. 1: 1922-1951, *Cologne 1990, cat. no. 486 (illustrated in color) - - Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 254th auction, June 8& 9, 1984, lot 1177a (illustrated in color on plate 47).
E. W. Nay, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, April 2 - May 7, 1950, cat. no. 56. Neue Rheinische Secession Düsseldorf, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Nov. 1 - Dec. 24, 1950, cat. no. 149. Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Die Hofheimer Jahre 1945-1951, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt a. Main, Feb. 24 - May 23, 1994 / Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, June 9 - August 21, 1994, cat. no. 47 (with the label on the reverse of the stretcher)
Private collection, North Germany (since 1984, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg). Private collection, North Germany (since 2022)
Condition report on request katalogisierung@kettererkunst.de
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