Oil on canvas, 1959. 957x700 mm; 37 5/8x27 1/2 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, with the labels; Vered Gallery, East Hampton, with the label; private collection, New York.
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 worked under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration alongside artists such as Stuart Davis (1892-1964) and Byron Browne (1907-1961). By the 1940s, von Wicht was among the first wave of New York-based artists to embrace Abstract Expressionism, to which he adhered throughout the remainder of his career.
