Live Auction 2318Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Christie’s roundel
Lot 151 Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection

John Koch (1909-1978)

The Painter

Closed20 May 2010

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USD 122,500

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John Koch (1909-1978)
The Painter
signed 'Koch' (lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Painted in 1964.

Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., New York.
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Forsyth.
Private collection, Southern Pines, North Carolina.
[With]Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.

Specialist note

The present work depicts a painter, most likely a student of John Koch's, working in the artist's apartment and studio in the El Dorado on Central Park West, New York.