Lot Essay
This was the artist's first spit-bite etching.
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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR
CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)
Self-Portrait (Pernotto 51)
Details
CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)
Self-Portrait (Pernotto 51)
etching, 1988, on Hahnemule, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 33/50 (there were also 6 artist's proofs), published by Pace Editions, New York, with the Aldo Crommelynck blindstamp, with full margins, the sheet edges slightly rippled where hinged on the reverse, in very good condition, framed
P. 13½ x 9¾ in. (345 x 246 mm.)
S. 21 x 15½in. (533 x 393mm.)
Self-Portrait (Pernotto 51)
etching, 1988, on Hahnemule, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 33/50 (there were also 6 artist's proofs), published by Pace Editions, New York, with the Aldo Crommelynck blindstamp, with full margins, the sheet edges slightly rippled where hinged on the reverse, in very good condition, framed
P. 13½ x 9¾ in. (345 x 246 mm.)
S. 21 x 15½in. (533 x 393mm.)
Literature
Terrie Sultan, Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration (exh. cat), Princeton University Press and Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, New Jersey and Texas, 2003, pp. 77-83.