Lot 146
  • 146

Chuck Close

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Chuck Close
  • Self-Portrait / Pulp
  • signed, dated 2001 and numbered 3/35
  • colored pressed handmade paper pulp consisting of eleven various grays
  • 57 by 40 in. 144.8 by 101.6 cm.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is number 3 from an edition of 35 plus 8 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Pace Editions, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in March 2004

Exhibited

Houston, Blaffer Gallery; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Miami Art Museum; Knoxville Museum of Art; Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art; Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; Newport Beach, Orange County Museum of Art; Boise Art Museum; Portland Art Museum; Waterville, Colby College Museum of Art; Seoul, Korea, Sungkok Art Museum; Nashville, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, September 2003 - April 2008 (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005, July 2005 - October 2006, p. 74, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The edges are deckled. The sheet is hinged verso at the top two corner edges. This work has not been examined out of the frame. Framed under Plexiglas.
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