Pyke Koch
(The Netherlands, Ubbergen 1901 – 1991 Wassenaar)
Florentijnse tuin (Florentine Garden), 1938
signed Pyke Koch (lower right)
oil on canvas, 62.5 by 77.5 cm., 24 5/8 by 30 1/2 in.
Provenance
-Vis Collection, Maastricht (acquired from the artist)
-Sale: Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V., Amsterdam, 24th-25th April 1978, lot 392
-Private Collection, The Netherlands
-Loek Brons Kunsthandel, Amsterdam
-Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1989
-Sale: Sotheby’s London, February 4, 2020, lot 31.
-Private Collection, The Netherlands
Exhibited
1-Venice, XXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1938, no. 3A Brussels, Galerie 86, Openingstentoonstelling, 1966
2-Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe & Zeist, Slot Zeist, Het magisch realisme in de Nederlandse schilderkunst.
Een zelfstandige stroming?, 1981-82, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue
3-Rotterdam, Kunsthal, De Blijvende Verlokking Kunstenaars uit de Lage Landen in Italië 1806-1940, 2003, illustrated in the catalogue
4-Spanbroek, Frisia Museum, Fresco’s & Fellini. Pyke Koch geïnspireed door Italië, 2004, no. 14, illustrated in the catalogue
5-Dordrechts Museum, on loan, 2020-2025.
Literature
1-S., ‘De Biennale te Venetië’, Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, 9th July 1938 Carel Scharten, ‘Italië en Nederland op de Biennale’, De Telegraaf, 28th July 1938
2-Q. van Tiel, ‘XXI Biennale van Venetië’, Verf en Kunst, 1938, no. 10, pp. 4-8
3-Jan Engelman, Pyke Koch, Amsterdam, 1941, p. 33
4-Carel Blotkamp, Pyke Koch, Amsterdam, 1972, no. 27, illustrated p. 164
5-Carel Blotkamp, Pyke Koch, Utrecht, 1982, illustrated p. 97
6-Carel Blotkamp & Dory Kicken, Pyke Koch Schilderijen en tekeningen/Paintings and Drawings, Rotterdam, 1995, no. 30, illustrated p. 214
7-Andreas Koch, Roman Koot, Mieke Rijnders & Marja Bosma, De wereld van Pyke Koch, Zwolle, 2017, no. 11, illustrated p. 58
