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CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021)

Lot 318
12.05.2023 16:00UTC -05:00
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ID 949866
Lot 318 | CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021)

Self-Portrait / 8x1

signed, titled and dated 'c. close 1977 "Self portrait/8-1"' (lower right)

ink on paper

image: 8 1/4 x 6 in. (21 x 15.2 cm.)

sheet: 29 7/8 x 22 1/8 in. (75.5 x 56.1 cm.)

Drawn in 1977.





Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York

Mr and Mrs Martin L. Schmuckler, New York

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

Private collection, New York

Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

Robert Mann, Fort Lauderdale

His estate sale; Christie's, New York, 18 May 2018, lot 907

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

M. Shapiro, "Changing Variables: Chuck Close and His Prints," Print Collector's Newsletter, vol. 9, 3 July-August 1978, p. 73 (detail illustrated).

L. K. Meisel, Photorealism, New York, 1980, p. 132 (illustrated).

A. Artner, "Close Encounters at MCA: No Longer Radical or Realistic," Chicago Tribune, 15 February 1981, p. 13 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Chuck Close: Recent Work, April-June 1977.

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; St. Louis Art Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and New York, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, Close Portraits, September 1980-June 1981, no. 9.

New York, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms), March 1996.

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art and Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005, July 2005-October 2006, p. 140, pl. 15 (illustrated).
Artist: Chuck Close (1940 - 2021)
Art style:Post War Art
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