Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left corner, signed, dated, and titled on the reverse of the stretcher. 70.6 x 90 cm.

• Outstanding testimony to Nay's engagement with music as a central source of inspiration during this brief creative period.
• 1949: Ernst Wilhelm Nay conceived his “Fugal Pictures” after his early expressive works.
• Full of musical associations, “Figurale - Eta” intuitively resembles a melody.
• A poem of form and color: areas of color are not only visual elements but also convey emotional and rhythmic tension.
• Exhibited in the first Nay retrospective at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hanover in 1950, just one year after its creation.
LITERATURE: Aurel Scheibler, Ernst Wilhelm Nay. Catalogue raissonné of oil paintings, vol. 1: 1922-1951, *Cologne 1990, cat. no. 486 (illustrated in color) - - Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 254th auction, June 8& 9, 1984, lot 1177a (illustrated in color on plate 47).