Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Morningstar
1963

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Oil on canvas

65 × 60 cm | 26 2/3 × 23 2/3 in

Signed, dated »63« and dedicated »for Nov. 16, 1963«. On the verso signed again and marked »NAY - »MORNINGSTAR « - 1963« on the stretcher

Catalogue Raisonné by Scheibler 1990 no. 1071

Provenance

Collection Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Brooks, New York (present from the artist to the former director of the Knoedler Gallery, New York 1963-2000)

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Literature

Aurel Scheibler, "Ernst Wilhelm Nay – Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde" Bd. 2, 1952-1968, Köln 1990, no. 1071, ill. p. 252

Ernst Wilhelm Nay was one of the most important representatives of German post-war art. His pictures show a relationship with the Informel.