Art + Design 
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Chuck Close 1940–2021

Self-Portrait

1977
Etching, hardground and aquatint sheet: 53¾ h × 40¼ w in (137 × 102 cm) image: 44¼ h × 35¼ w in (112 × 90 cm)
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $15,000
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Signed, titled, dated and numbered to lower margin ‘35/35 Self Portrait C. Close 1977’. This work is number 35 from the edition of 35 printed by Crown Point Press, Oakland.
provenance: Private Collection, San Francisco
literature: Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Sultan, pl. 32

This work will ship from LAMA in Los Angeles, California.

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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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