Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in lower right. Inscribed with a personal dedication by a hand other than that of the artist on the reverse. 70 x 80 cm.
There is a color lithograph of the same subject (Gabler 27) and a preliminary gouache (CR 49-009).
- Part of the Ottomar Domnick Collection for many years. - From the “Fugal Paintings” series. - A colorful testimony to Nay's exploration of music as a central source of inspiration typical of this creative period.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Siegfried Gohr, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raisonné of oil paintings, vol. 1 (1922-1951), Cologne 1990, no. 528 (illu. in color). - - Lempertz, Cologne, auction 515, Modern Art, April 28/29, 1972, lot 795 (here: Komposition). Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, auction 10, Modern Art, November 26-28, 1973, lot 961 (illu. on p. 148). Karlheinz Gabler, Bericht über die Zeichnungen, in: Nay - Zeichnungen, Frankfurt a. Main 1976, pp. 8f. Friedrich Weltzien, E. W. Nay. Figur und Körperbild. Kunst und Kunsttheorie der vierziger Jahre, Berlin 2003, p. 275.