Bidspirit auction | Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Rot im

Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Rot im Zentrum - NAY, ERNST WILHELM 1902 Berlin - 1968 Cologne Title: Rot im Zentrum. Date: 1955. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 100 x 160cm. Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Nay 55. Additionally signed verso upper right: Nay (circled). Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar. Provenance: - Estate of E.W. Nay / Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler, Cologne - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1980) Exhibitions: - Kleemann Galleries, New York 1955 - Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1980 - Haus der Kunst, Munich 1980 - Bayer AG, Leverkusen 1980 - Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen a. Rh. 1980/81 - Neue Galerie, Kassel 1981 - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 - Bayer Erholungshaus, Leverkusen 2016/17 Literature: - Ernst Wilhelm Nay Stiftung (ed.): Werkverzeichnis - www.nay.aps-info.de, cat. rais. no. CR 757 (last accessed 10th January 2025) - Scheibler, Aurel: Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. II 1952-1968, Cologne 1990, cat. rais. no. 757, fig. - Exhib. cat. Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Kleemann Galleries, New York 1955, cat. no. 8, fig. - Exhib. cat. E.W. Nay, 1902-1968, Bilder und Dokumente, Germanisches Nationalmuseum/ Haus der Kunst/Wilhelm-Hack-Museum/Neue Galerie, Munich 1980, p. 131, cat. no. 37, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 141, fig. - Colour-intense und suspenseful composition from the famous series of disc paintings - Nay provides an account of the theoretical foundations of his art in the treatise ”Vom Gestaltwert der Farbe” in 1955 - Selected for the first solo exhibition at the Kleemann Gallery in New York Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Ernst Wilhelm Nay Germany Abstraction Post-War Art Modern Art 1950s Studio bar Abstract Painting Oil Shapes