Ernst Wilhelm Nay

This three-gallery survey at Michael Werner and Mary Boone's spaces both uptown and down focuses on German postwar abstractionist Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968). As a young artist, he was influenced by the figurative Expressionism of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, but in the years following World War II, his style evolved into a purely nonobjective one, distinguished by a bold use of color. Note to young painters: There are ideas here ripe for the borrowing.