Lot 69: Pyke Koch (1901-1991)

Pyke Koch (1901-1991)
Het signaal
signed with initials 'PK' (lower left and right)
oil on canvas
46 x 37.5 cm.
Painted in 1975.

Paris, Institut Néerlandais/Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum/Liège, Musée d'Art moderne, Pyke Koch, 14 October 1982 - 14 March 1983, no. 37.
Athens, National Gallery & Alexander Soutzos Museum, Modern Dutch Painting, 16 September - 23 October 1983, p. 24 (illustrated).
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, De Utrechtse Parade 1495-1995, 23 July - 31 December 1994.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Pyke Koch: schilderijen en tekeningen, 26 February - 14 May 1995, no. 113 (dated 1975).
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Pyke Koch. Réalisme magique aux Pays-Bas, 18 June - 27 August 1995, no. 50.

C. Blotkamp, Pyke Koch, Paris, 1982-1983, no 37, (illustrated).
L. van Tilborgh, 'Freudian motifs in the oeuvre of Pyke Koch', in: Simiolus, 1985, pp. 131-150 (illustrated p. 137).
C. Blotkamp, 'De heilsoldate moet eruit. Over Koch en Nijhoff', in: Jong Holland, 1986, pp. 8-25 (illustrated p. 25).
B. Kempers, 'De ''wonderboy'' van Pyke Koch. Contorsionistes, travestieten en andere maskerades', in: Jong Holland, 2 (1992), pp. 12-23 (illustrated p. 22).
T. Schoon, a.o., Pyke Koch: schilderijen en tekeningen, Rotterdam, 1995, no. 113, p. 238 (illustrated p. 145).

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 December 1992, lot 218.
Acquired at the above sale by Kunsthandel Loek Brons, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993.