Lot 138
  • 138

Chuck Close

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Chuck Close
  • Georgia
  • signed, titled, dated 1984 and numbered 2/35
  • pressed handmade paper pulp
  • 58 by 45 1/2 in. 147.3 by 115.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1984, this work is number 2 from an edition of 35 published by Pace Editions, New York.

Provenance

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

Literature

Exh. Cat., Youngstown, The Butler Institute of American Art, Chuck Close: Editions: A Catalog Raisonné and Exhibition, 1989, cat. no. 34, illustrated
Mildred Glimcher, Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace, Milan, 2001, p. 254, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Houston and traveling, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, 2003-2007, pl. 45, p. 67, illustrated Christopher Finch, Chuck Close | Work, Munich, 2007, p. 137, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The work is hinged on the reverse to the backing board. All of the pressed pulp is intact. There is light surface soiling throughout and particularly at the edges. The surface is very textured, due to the artist's working method. Framed under Plexiglas.
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