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Pyke Koch
The Signal, 1975
Pyke Koch was quoting himself here. He reused a 45-year-earlier style and theme in his in the meantime perfected painting technique. The heavily made-up woman looking away resembles Mercedes of Barcelona and the film star Asta Nielsen, models in his earlier paintings. A streetwalker, she waits at a
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public urinal which is also a meeting point. Barely visible, she spreads her fingers in a scabrous gesture, a signal that (only) the elderly painter remembered with a snigger from his wild youth.
Text: Chris Reinewald
From: Museum MORE: 100 jaar realisme, 2020, Gorssel
Artist
Pyke Koch
Title
The Signal
Year
1975
Technique
Oil on canvas
Size
46.5 x 37.8 cm (h x w)
Type of object
Painting
Copyright
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