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.

la collection du dr. o. domnick,Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, January 17 - March 2, 1953 and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, March 7 - 29, 1953, cat. no. 100

Prof. Ottomar Domnick Collection, Stuttgart. Private collection Hesse (since 1990). Ever since family-owned

In good condition. Isolated spots of minimal craquelure. With tiny losses in the green in the lower right, here retouched. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the help of an ultraviolet light and to the best of knowledge.