Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection
Traum (Dream)
Auction Closed
October 14, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Ernst Wilhelm Nay
1902 - 1968
Traum (Dream)
signed and dated 63; signed on the reverse; signed, titled and dated 1963 on the stretcher
oil on canvas
200 by 160.4 cm. 78⅞ by 63⅛ in.
Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler, Cologne (thence by descent)
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (acquired from the above in 1991)
Private Collection, Germany
Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 1996, Lot 22 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Band II, Cologne 1990, p. 258, no. 1082, illustrated in colour
Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein; Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, November 1964 – February 1965, n.p., no. 41 (text)
Kassel, documenta III, Malerei und Skulptur, June – October 1964, p. 164, no. 2, illustrated
Oslo, Holst Halvorsens Kunsthandel, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, October – November 1965, n.p., no. 7 (text)
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Berlin, Akademie der Künst; and Mannaheim, Städische Kunsthalle, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, November 1966 – February 1967, p. 56, no. 56, illustrated
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, April – May 1967, p. 39, no. 53, illustrated
Munich, Galerie Günther Franke, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, June – August 1968, n.p., no. 5 (text)
Cologne, Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, March 1991, p. 5, illustrated in colour