Lot 17
17
CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)
Works from the Peter Norton Collection
CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)

Phil I (White)

Details
CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)
Phil I (White)
signed, numbered and dated '4/15 Chuck Close 1982' (lower edge)
pressed paper pulp in greys
68¼ x 53½ in. (173.4 x 135.9 cm.)
Executed in 1982. This work is number four from an edition of fifteen plus five artist's proofs and two printer's proofs.
Provenance
Pace Editions Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987
Literature
L. Lyons and R. Storr, Chuck Close, New York, 1987, pp. 35 and 168 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Younstown, Butler Institute of American Art, Chuck Close: Editions. A Catalog Raisonné and Exhibition, September-November 1989, no. 23 (illustrated, another example exhibited).

Lot Essay

"The thing about what Chuck did, or that people were doing then [the late 1960s], was that the content of the work was actually the process, the activity of making art was the art. We were trying to collapse the idea of form and content into one perception" -Philip Glass

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