Lot 227
  • 227

Chuck Close

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Chuck Close
  • Leslie - Pastel
  • signed, titled and dated 1977; signed, titled and dated 1977 on the backing board
  • pastel, graphite and watercolor on watercolor-washed paper
  • 30 by 22 in. 76.1 by 55.9 cm.

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; St. Louis Art Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chuck Close Portraits, September 1980 - June 1981

Literature

Louis K. Meisel, Photorealism, New York, 1980, cat. no. 215, p. 122, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are deckled and there are artist’s pinholes at the corners. The edges of the sheet have darkened slightly as visible in the catalogue illustration. The sheet is hinged verso to matte at the corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion - Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.” - Chuck Close