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Chuck Close

Self-Portrait, 1977

Description

Maker

  • Pace Editions, founded 1968, American, publisher
  • Crown Point Press, printer
  • Patrick Foy, printer
  • Chuck Close, 1940 - 2021, American

Title

Self-Portrait

Year

1977

Medium

Etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • aquatint

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Plate: 114 x 89.2 cm (44 7/8 x 35 1/8 inches) (sight)

Identification

Edition

11/35

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

78.050

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Facing Artists

February 27 - July 31, 2009

For more than forty years, Chuck Close has limited his image-making to frontal, bust-length portraits—including eighty of himself, making his own face his
most frequent subject. Close bases each portrait on a photograph, laying a grid over it and transferring the image, square by square, to another surface. One type
of mark is often used to create an entire rendering. In this, his first self-portrait print, parallel diagonal lines within squares make up the image. The density of
parallel lines within each square determines relative darkness and light.

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