JOHN VON WICHTUntitled.Oil on paper, circa 1950. 612x884 mm; 24¼x35 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.Provenance: Private collection, New York; 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 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.