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JOHN VON WICHT Haven (Harbor).
Color crayons, pastels, watercolor and gouache on thin cream Japan paper, circa 1945-50. 625x885 mm; 24 3/4x35 inches. Signed in black crayon, lower left recto, and titled in pencil, lower right recto.
Ex-collection private collection, Chicago.
Von Wicht (1888-1970) was born in Germany and studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar. He immigrated to the United States in the 1930s, settling in New York and working under the auspices of the WPA alongside artists such as Stuart Davis (1892-1964) and Byron Browne (1907-1961). By the 1940s, Von Wicht was among to first wave of New York-based artists to embrace Abstract Expressionism, to which he adhered throughout the rest of his career.
