Ohne Titel (Postkarte). 1953.
Gouache.
Lower right signed. On wove paper. 10.6 x 17.7 cm (4.1 x 6.9 in), the full sheet.
Stamped postcard, verso with a personal dedication from Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Elisabeth Nay.
We are grateful to Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, Cologne, for her kind support in cataloging this lot. The work will be included into the catalog raisonné of works on paper with the number CR 53-028.2. [AW].
• Charming small format in Nay's typical artistic style and with strong colors.
• Sent in 1955 as a postcard from the Nay couple to Alfred Hentzen, then director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
• Privately-owned for almost 40 years.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Prof. Dr. Alfred Hentzen (gifted from the artist in 1956).
Private collection Southern Germany (gifted from the above in 1984).
Private collection Southern Germany.

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