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Scheibenbild, 1955, mixed media on cardboard, 19 5/8 x 20 1/4 in (50 x 51.4 cm), signed lower left, dated 1955, embossed stamp lower right Schoeller Hammer PROVENANCE: From a private collector in Miami, FL ARTWORK NOTATION: This painting is part of a series he started in 1955 and continued thru the early 60's The round, coloured planes, which generated subtle vibrations in an imaginary colour-space modulation. It was during this creative phase that Nay finally bade farewell to figuration, and henceforth his compositions derived from a purely abstract intellectual world, with colour and forms constituting his sole artistic elements. This period, in which he dedicated himself to the circular form, can perhaps be regarded as the most intensive in Nay's oeuvre. The disc, the circle became his basic form, as a symbol for wholeness. Within this symbol "salvation and calamity can confront each other", Nay once remarked. "In answer to the question of how he chanced upon the creative form of the disc, Nay replied, that for him, the circle was the natural form in which paint spreads across the surface. When he then tried to distribute the initial dab of paint on the canvas, his hand involuntarily drew a circle, creating a disc. He subsequently elevated this simple experience - borne of artistic craftsmanship - to a guiding principle which led him to an ingenious simplification of his art."