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The Collection of John Sacret Young

John Koch

Conversation - Nightlight (i) & Study for 'Conversation - Nightlight' (ii): Two Works

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

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The Collection of John Sacret Young

John Koch

1909 - 1978


Conversation - Nightlight (i) & Study for 'Conversation - Nightlight' (ii): Two Works


(i) 

signed Koch (lower right)

oil on canvas

20 by 12 in. 

50.8 by 30.5 cm.

Executed in 1954.


(ii) 

extensively inscribed (lower left); signed Koch and numbered 35 (lower right)

pencil on paper

17 ¾ by 12 in. 

45.1 by 30.5 cm.

Executed in 1954.

Kraushaar Galleries, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1954)

Martha Parrish and James Reinish, New York (acquired from the estate of the above in 2006)

John Sacret Young, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in January 2006)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Buffalo, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Land, Sea, and Light: The John Sacret Young Collection, 2023

John Sacret Young, Pieces of Glass: An Artoir, Beverly Hills, 2016, p. 184, illustrated in color