Watercolor. Signed and dated "Nay 59 y" in the lower right. On watercolor paper. 42 x 60.2 cm. , the full sheet.
The suffix “y” in the signature refers to the place of origin of the watercolor: Mykonos, Greece. [MH].

• From Nay's most famous work phase, the “Disk Pictures”, which he created from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.
• The “Disk Pictures” are among the most sought-after works by Ernst Wilhelm Nay on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Watercolors from this series are part of the collections of the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
The work is included in the (online) catalog raisonné of E. W. Nay's works on paper, which is regularly updated by Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Cologne. We would like to thank Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, for the kind information..
LITERATURE: Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue Raisonné. Watercolors - Gouaches - Drawings, Vol. 3: 1954-1968, Berlin 2018, Cat. No. 59-042 (illustrated in color). - - Jean Cassou, Nay - Aquarelle, Cologne 1969, p. 29.

Private collection, Cologne. Private collection, Rhineland (inherited from the above)

Good overall impression. Oxidation-related browning, raised parts of the paper discolored, as is typical of the watercolor paper used by Nay. This is a manufacturing defect of the paper.