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

CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)

Phil I (White)

Closed7 March 2012

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USD 50,000

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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.

Pace Editions Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987

Specialist note

"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