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JOHN KOCH Reclining Male Nude.
Pencil with white and yellow heightening on tan paper. 295x503 mm; 11x19 3/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto and inscribed "man sleeping," lower left recto.
Koch (1909-1978) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and became well-known for his paintings of fashionable Manhattan and New England society. He was also a talented draughtsman, working from life, with a keen appreciation of the realist tradition dating back to the old masters.
