Lot 150
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Altre immagini
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Menschen in den Lofoten, 1938.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 70,000 / $ 74,900 Risultato:
€ 87,500 / $ 93,625 ( commissione inclusa)
Menschen in den Lofoten. 1938.
Oil on canvas.
Scheibler 226. Signed and dated in lower right. Once more dated on the reverse. 62 x 80.5 cm (24.4 x 31.6 in).
• From the important series of the Lofoten pictures.
• Colorful depiction with an especially dense composition.
• Other paintings from this series are in, among others, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich.
Enno Franke, Murrhardt.
Galerie Biedermann, Munich.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1984).
Private collection Southern Germany (inherited from the above).
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay. Arbeiten der Jahre 1924-1952 (Retrospektive), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 17 - June 15, 1952, cat. no. 44.
Oil on canvas.
Scheibler 226. Signed and dated in lower right. Once more dated on the reverse. 62 x 80.5 cm (24.4 x 31.6 in).
• From the important series of the Lofoten pictures.
• Colorful depiction with an especially dense composition.
• Other paintings from this series are in, among others, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Günther Franke, Munich.
Enno Franke, Murrhardt.
Galerie Biedermann, Munich.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1984).
Private collection Southern Germany (inherited from the above).
EXHIBITION: E. W. Nay. Arbeiten der Jahre 1924-1952 (Retrospektive), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 17 - June 15, 1952, cat. no. 44.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay shows us three naked human figures in a rough, rugged landscape. Surrounded by steep mountain slopes, they appear as a part of nature, strongly integrated into the landscape.
With the support of his friend, the Lübeck museum director Carl Georg Heise, and the art collector Carl Hagemann, Nay was able to visit Edvard Munch in Norway in 1937 and then embarked on his journey up the coast to the Lofoten Islands. He made the characteristic landscape the subject of a whole series of paintings that marked a first peak in Nay's painterly work. In doing so, he developed impressive panoramas with human figures and animals from predominantly contourless color surfaces.
In the case of our painting, Nay creates a dense and exciting composition that focuses on the relationship between man and nature. The unusual color palette is one of the features with which he gives the depiction its special impact: the mountain formations, which are predominantly kept in dark colors, and the sky, which is laid out in yellow, red, white and gray tones, convey an equally impressive and somber mood. The narrow, jagged forms give the painting its characteristic dynamics, which seems to spread over to the figures. Their color accents alone prevent them from visually blending into the landscape, while the mountains tower above them, reminiscent of the storm-tossed sea. In particular, the female figure positioned on the left edge seems to literally sink into the landscape.
Nay presents the rough beauty of the Lofoten Islands, which is so formative for him, brought together in one captivating pictorial idea. It is the concentrated implementation of his unique conception of landscape that makes the painting "People in the Lofoten" stand out among his works of these years. [AM]
With the support of his friend, the Lübeck museum director Carl Georg Heise, and the art collector Carl Hagemann, Nay was able to visit Edvard Munch in Norway in 1937 and then embarked on his journey up the coast to the Lofoten Islands. He made the characteristic landscape the subject of a whole series of paintings that marked a first peak in Nay's painterly work. In doing so, he developed impressive panoramas with human figures and animals from predominantly contourless color surfaces.
In the case of our painting, Nay creates a dense and exciting composition that focuses on the relationship between man and nature. The unusual color palette is one of the features with which he gives the depiction its special impact: the mountain formations, which are predominantly kept in dark colors, and the sky, which is laid out in yellow, red, white and gray tones, convey an equally impressive and somber mood. The narrow, jagged forms give the painting its characteristic dynamics, which seems to spread over to the figures. Their color accents alone prevent them from visually blending into the landscape, while the mountains tower above them, reminiscent of the storm-tossed sea. In particular, the female figure positioned on the left edge seems to literally sink into the landscape.
Nay presents the rough beauty of the Lofoten Islands, which is so formative for him, brought together in one captivating pictorial idea. It is the concentrated implementation of his unique conception of landscape that makes the painting "People in the Lofoten" stand out among his works of these years. [AM]
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Menschen in den Lofoten, 1938.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 70,000 / $ 74,900 Risultato:
€ 87,500 / $ 93,625 ( commissione inclusa)