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# The Sculptor, 1964
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/skulptor-1964-god/
- Published: 2020-07-17T12:11:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:42:30.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Observations, Humour

The Sculptor, 1964\. By the American realist painter John Koch (1909-1978). When the model quite literally gives off fire: having taken the measurements of his nude sitter, the master has nothing left to do but light a cigarette with shaking hands, never letting go of the callipers.

I simply adore Koch's work. Every one of his portraits captures a dialogue, movement, an interplay between its characters, and some charming fragment of the everyday that is hard to find, easy to miss and impossible to forget.