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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR69.227
People
Ernst Wilhelm Nay, German (Berlin, Germany 1902 - 1968 Cologne, Germany)
Title
Figures
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Figuren
Former Title: Leda and the Swan
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1949
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220242

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
23.6 x 31.8 cm (9 5/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in graphite at l.l.: Nay 49
  • inscription: on verso, graphite, handwritten, English: Leda and the Swan / by Ernst Wilhelm Nay 1949 / gift to the Busch-Reisinger Museum / From Naomi Jackson Groves / November 1969. (Mrs. J. Walton Groves)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Collection Naomi Jackson Groves, gift; Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1969

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Claesges 49-031

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Naomi Jackson Groves
Copyright
© E. Nay-Scheibler. Koln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
BR69.227
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The support is a heavy wove paper.

Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 69
  • Dr. Magdalene Claesges, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Werkverzeichnis. Aquarelle - Gouachen - Zeichnungen, Bd. 2, 1949-1953, Hatje Cantz (Ostfildern, Germany, 2014), p. 28, col. ill.
  • Lynette Roth, Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 321-323, cat. no. 43.2, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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