Watercolor. Signed and dated in the lower left. On Ingres laid paper by PMF Italia (with the watermark). 48.4 x 63.3 cm. , the full sheet.
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- From the “Lofoten Pictures” series, which marked the first peak in the artist’s career. - A symbiosis of figuration and abstraction: this watercolor already reveals Nay’s intense exploration of color and a rhythmic formal language. - In private ownership for more than 20 years.
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, vol. 1: 1919-1948, Ostfildern 2012, no. 37-009 (illustrated in color). -- Galerie Koller, Zürich, auction 75/2, May 18/19/21, 1990, lot 5200 (illustrated on plate 11).