Bidspirit auction | Ernst Wilhelm Nay: ”Mit fünf

Ernst Wilhelm Nay: ”Mit fünf weißen Sternen” - NAY, ERNST WILHELM 1902 Berlin - 1968 Cologne Title: ”Mit fünf weißen Sternen”. Date: 1955. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 125 x 200,5cm. Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Nay. 55. Additionally signed, titled and dated verso top of the stretcher: NAY - mit 5 weissen STERNEN- 1955. Signed again verso lower left: NAY. Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar. Provenance: - Estate of E.W. Nay / Elisabeth Nay-Scheibler, Cologne - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired in 1984) Exhibitions: - Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover 1955 - Galerie Günther Franke, Munich 1955, cat. no. 2 - Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum/Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, Hagen 1955 - Kunsthalle Basel 1960, cat. no. 114 - 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 759 (last accessed 10th January 2025) - Scheibler, Aurel: Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, vol. II 1952-1968, Cologne 1990, cat. rais. no. 759, fig. - Exhib. cat. Gemälde, Aquarell, Zeichnungen, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover 1955, cat. no. 27 - Exhib. cat. Westdeutsche Kunst 1945-1955, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum/Westdeutscher Künstlerbund, Hagen 1955, cat. no. 149, fig. - Farbenfabriken Bayer (ed.): Kunstwerk - Bildende Kunst bei Bayer, Leverkusen 1992, p. 80, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 143, fig. - Ernst Wilhelm Nay Stiftung (ed.): Ernst Wilhelm Nay und die Moderne, vol. 1, Cologne 2020, p. 81, fig. - Analogy of pictorial and outer space made visible by the five ”stars” - An example for the ”arithmetical examples”, which Nay creates to balance the relation between colours and surface as well as room perfectly - Irresistible dynamics from right to left, emphasized against the usual reading direction of images, contrasted by the white ”stars” and dark circles 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