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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Berlin 1902 – 1968 Cologne

”Mutation”. 1953

Oil on canvas. 70 × 100 cm (27 ½ × 39 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Ernst Wilhelm Nay. ”Mutation”. 1953.

Estimate:

EUR 150,000

 

- 200,000

USD 176,000

 

- 235,000

Sold for:

146,050 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2025

Selected Works, Thursday, 27.11.2025

Information

Oil on canvas. 70 × 100 cm (27 ½ × 39 ⅜ in.). Signed and dated lower right: Nay 53. Signed, titled and dated in black brush on the stretcher: EW Nay – Mutation – 1953. On the decorative frame a label of Galerie Orangerie Reinz, Cologne. Catalogue raisonné: Scheibler 681. Some craquelure.

Some craquelure

Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne / Collection Lambert, Brussels / Galerie Redies, Duisburg / Private Collection, Southern Germany / Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (1991) / Private Collection, Hesse

Neue Rheinische Sezession. Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, 1955, cat. no. 45 („Montation“ [sic!]) / E.W. Nay. Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel, 1957 („Rhythmische Improvisation“)

Werner Haftmann: E.W. Nay. Köln, M. DuMont Schauberg, 1960, S. 156, Abb. 46 („Rhythmische Improvisation I“) / Auction: Modern and Contemporary Art. London, Sotheby’s, 4.12.1980, cat. no. 379a, w. ill. („Abstract Composition“)

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