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Chuck Close 1940–2021

Self-Portrait Chuck Close

2009
Polaroid mounted to foamcore with graphite, ink and tape image: 33½ h × 22 w in (85 × 56 cm) mount: 33½ h × 25½ w in (85 × 65 cm)
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $9,675
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Signed, titled and dated to upper and lower margins ‘Self-Portrait Chuck Close 2009’. This work is unique.
provenance: Pace, New York | Private Collection

This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

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Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Chuck Close

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