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Chuck  Close:   Untitled (Doctors of the World)
 
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Description
Artist: Close Chuck
Title: Untitled (Doctors of the World)
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 2000s
Medium: Photographs, Digital Print, Pigmented digital output from daguerroeotype
Year: 2001
Size: height - 22 in, width - 29.25 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, dated, and numbered, in pencil
Edition: 65/100
Foundry/Publisher: Art of this Century
Estimate: from $2,500 to $3,500

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Untitled (Doctors of the World), 2001
Digital iris print, on wove paper, with full margins
22 x 29.25 in. (60 x 73.7 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil

Close’s drawings, paintings, photographs and prints have been the subject of more than 100 exhibitions in over 20 countries, including many organised by museums. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid organised Chuck Close Paintings: 1968 / 2006. The exhibition then traveled to Germany. Another important traveling retrospective was prepared by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Other venues included The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.

A comprehensive monograph dedicated to Chuck Close’s career was published by Prestel. In October 2007, a major exhibition went on view at White Cube in London. This exhibition then traveled to The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia in February 2008. Around the same time, the Whitney Museum honored Close during their Fall Gala. Film Forum also released CHUCK CLOSE, An Astounding Portrait, a documentary produced and directed by Marion Cajori on December 26, 2007.
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  • History & Provenance

    • Publications:
      Finch, Christopher. Chuck Close: Work. Munich/New York: Prestel, 2007.

      Holman, Bob. A Couple of Ways of Doing Something / Poems by Bob Holman; photographs by Chuck Close; interview by Lyle Rexer. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006.

      Close, Chuck. Chuck Close: Self-portraits 1967-2005. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2005.

      Close, Chuck. Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes / [edited by] Demetrio Paparoni; foreword by Philip Glass; with a conversation between Chuck Close, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Jerry Spagnoli; [translations, Rosalind Furness, Laura De Tomasi]. Milano: A. Cetti Serbelloni, 2002.

      Storr, Robert. Chuck Close / Robert Storr; with essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998.

      Guare, John. Chuck Close: Life and Work, 1988-1995 / text by John Guare. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson in association with Yarrow Press, 1995.

      Close, Chuck. Chuck Close: Retrospektive / herausgegeben von Jochen Poetter und Helmut Friedel. Baden-Baden: Cantz, 1994.

      Close, Chuck. Chuck Close / Colin Westerbeck. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with Friends of Photography, 1989.

      Close, Chuck. Chuck Close / Lisa Lyons and Robert Storr. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.

      Close, Chuck. Close Portraits [edited] by Lisa Lyons and Martin Friedman. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1980.

      Close, Chuck. Chuck Close / Kunstraum München. München: Kunstraum, 1979.

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Sales Results for Comparable Work

  • Chuck Close
    Untitled, 2000
    iris print
    9.4 in. x 7.9 in. / 24.0 cm. x 20.0 cm.
    Signed

    ed.10/75

    Sold for US $2,252

    Skinner:
    Friday, March 06, 2009, (Lot 00258)
    American & European Paintings & Prints

  • Chuck Close
    Self portrait 1-5 (set of 5), 2002
    inkjet prints with screenprinted varnish
    19.0 in. x 25.0 in. / 48.3 cm. x 63.5 cm.
    Signed

    ed.29/30

    Sold for US $6,875

    Phillips de Pury & Company New York:
    Wednesday, May 21, 2008, (Lot 00044)
    Modern and Contemporary Editions

  • Chuck Close
    Renee, 2000
    color iris print
    23.4 in. x 31.9 in. / 59.4 cm. x 81.0 cm.
    Signed, Inscribed

    ed.unique

    Sold for US $23,750

    Christie's New York:
    Tuesday, April 01, 2008, (Lot 00130)
    Post-War And Contemporary First Open

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