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Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Brush and India ink
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lots Weib, 1947
Brush and India ink
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176
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Lots Weib, 1947
Brush and India ink
Starting bid:
€ 10,000
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 15,000
End: 07-15-26 16:27:00 Berlin
07-15-26 10:27:00 New York
07-15-26 07:27:00 Los Angeles (29 days, 19h:05m)

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,
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within Germany 105,68 €,
within the EU countries 184,95 €,
outside the EU countries on request.


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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1902 - 1968
Lots Weib. 1947.
Brush and India ink and pencil.
Inscribed “37 (circled) Nay: Ink brush 1949; (Frau und Häuser; Dieses Blatt ist von E. W. Nay; Elisabeth Nay” on the reverse by Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler. On wove paper. 50.8 x 57 cm (20 x 22.4 in), the full sheet.
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• The work was created in the early postwar period—a phase of artistic renewal and stylistic reorientation for Nay.
• The interplay of ink brush and pencil creates a tension between spontaneous gesture and constructive planning.
• Previously exhibited on several occasions, including at the Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main.
• Study for the oil painting of the same name (CR no. 397)
• Nay is one of the most important representatives of abstract art in Germany.

We are grateful to Dr. Brigitte Schlüter, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, Cologne, for her kind assistance.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt am Main (1991).
Private collection, Frankfurt am Main.
Galerie Terminus, Munich.
Private collection, Southern Germany (since the 2000s, acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay. Zeichnungen, Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen, March 26–May 10, 1981, cat. no. 41 (illustrated on p. 37; titled there as “Frau und Häuser II”).
Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Die Hofheimer Jahre 1945–1951, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Feb. 24–May 23, 1994; Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, June 9–Aug. 21, 1994, cat. no. 95.

LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue Raisonné. Aquarelles - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 1: 1919–1948, Ostfildern 2012, CR no. 47-210 (illustrated).

In good condition. Slightly soiled overall. There are a few small handling- and crease marks along the edges, as well as some slight isolated creases in the paper.