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CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021)
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signed, titled and dated '"Mark" 1997 Chuck Close' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
102 x 84 in. (259.1 x 213.4 cm.)
Painted in 1997.

Provenance

PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999

Literature

M. Cajori, Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress, 1998 (video; featured in-progress).
P. Tschinkel, Chuck Close: Eye to Eye, 1998 (video; featured in studio view)
P. Hoban, "The Night: Artists, in Paint and in Person," The New York Times, 1 March 1998, p. 6.
G. Gregg, "The Making of a Retrospective," ARTnews 97, April 1998, pp. 146-147 (installation view illustrated).
G. Dixon, "Head Case," Washington City Paper, 11 December 1998.
M. Friedman, Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait, New York, 2005, pp. 60-61 (illustrated).
P. Rosoff, Innocent Eye: A Passionate Look at Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2013, p. 137 (installation view illustrated).
C. Evangelista, Chuck Close Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings, digital, ongoing, n.p., no. 1997.03 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Seattle Art Museum and London, Hayward Gallery, Chuck Close, February 1998-September 1999, p. 199 (illustrated).

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"Mr. Close has revealed a basic emotional truth: The human face is never at rest because the human mind, awake or asleep, is never still." - Roberta Smith (R. Smith, “In Portraits in a Grand Scale, Chuck Close Moves On,” New York Times, November 8, 1991, sec. C, p. 24).

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