1961
graphite
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1961 graphite by Ernst Wilhelm Nay, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This sketch is all swirling pencil lines on white paper. You can’t tell what it’s supposed to be—just tangled shapes and scribbles. Some areas are packed tight with marks, while others fade into loose strokes. The artist used a lot of overlapping lines to build up dark spots, almost like scribbling over the same place again and again. It looks like they were in a hurry—or maybe just wanted to keep moving. Try looking up *cross-hatching* to see how this technique works.
Ernst Wilhelm Nay was a German painter and graphic designer of classical modernism. He is considered one of the most important painters of German post-war art.
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