Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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Property from an Important Private Collection

Ernst Wilhelm Nay

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.

The Artist

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

Exh. Cat., Brussels, Les Beaux-Arts, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, 1964, p. 258, illustrated

Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Band II, Cologne 1990, p. 258, no. 1082, illustrated in colour

Paris, Galerie Knoedler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, February – March 1964, n.p., no. 2 (text)

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