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Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Watercolor
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos), 1964
Watercolor
Starting bid:
€ 16,000
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
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78
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos), 1964
Watercolor
Starting bid:
€ 16,000
Estimate:
€ 18,000 - 24,000
End: 09-15-26 15:38:00 Berlin
09-15-26 09:38:00 New York
09-15-26 06:38:00 Los Angeles (19 days, 20h:46m)

Please enter your maximum bid, it will only be used to the extent necessary to beat the next best bid.
Bid plus 34 % buyer's premium (differential taxation without separate VAT statement, sales tax certificate upon request) and droit de suite charge without VAT.
Self pick-up: free of charge,
insured shipping:
within Germany 120,68 €,
within the EU countries 199,95 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


After entering your maximum bid you will be able to check your entry and you will be provided with further information. Only after a further confirmation your bid will be binding.


Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1902 - 1968
My - 11 - 64 (Mykonos). 1964.
Watercolor.
Signed and dated in the lower left. On firm paper. 60 x 42 cm (23.6 x 16.5 in), the full sheet.
[AR].

• A remarkably powerful watercolor from the series entitled “Augenbilder” (The Eye Pictures) (1963/64).
• Privately owned since its creation; offered on the international auction market for the first time.
• In the year the work was created, Nay participated in documenta III in Kassel with three large-scale “Augenbilder".

The work is listed under the number “WV-C 64-024.1” in Dr. Magdalene Claesges’ (Cologne) periodically updated and regularly expanded (online) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay’s works on paper. We would like to express our gratitude for the kind assistance.

PROVENANCE: The artist’s studio.
Galerie Günther Franke, Munich (1964).
Private collection, Southern Germany.
In the family’s possession ever since.

EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay— Aquarelle von 1963 und 1964, Galerie Günther Franke at the Arco-Palais, Munich, July 31–August 29, 1964 (on a sales list, the sheet is titled “1964/my-11” (item 6). The short form “my” refers to the place where the watercolor was created: Mykonos, Greece).

In good condition. The paper is very slightly wavy due to the printing process. Very few small brown spots. Remnants of an old mount on the reverse.

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