Lot 185
  • 185

Chuck Close

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Chuck Close
  • Kate
  • signed on a label attached to the reverse
  • jacquard tapestry
  • 260 by 198.4cm.; 102 3/8 by 78 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 2007, this work is number 7 from an edition of 10.

Provenance

White Cube, London

Acquired directly from the below by the present owner

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue: Washington D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Capital Portraits, 2011, no. 61, pp. 158-159, no. 61, another example illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is deeper and there are fewer magenta undertones in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition.
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