Lot 43
  • 43

Ernst Wilhelm Nay 1902-1968

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Ernst Wilhelm Nay
  • Still life with apples
  • signed E.W. Nay and dated 28 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas laid down on masonite
  • 9 1/2 by 17 3/4 in.
  • 24 by 45 cm.

Provenance

Dr. Alfred Karger, Berlin and Ecuador, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1928
By descent to the present owner, 1968

Literature

Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay - Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde, Volume I, Cologne, 1990, no. 59, illustrated, p. 91

Condition

Canvas laid down on masonite. Large craquelure through the work; some pigment separation on the apples. Under UV light: various pigments fluoresce but no apparent inpainting.
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