CHUCK CLOSE (B. 1940)
Lorna
signed ‘Chuck Close’ (on a label affixed to the reverse)
Jacquard tapestry
103 x 79in. (261.6 x 200.7cm.)
Executed in 2006, this work is number two from an edition of six

White Cube, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

New York, Aperture Gallery, Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, 2006-2013 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Washington, Tacoma Art Museum; Santiago, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Santa Rosa, California, Sonoma County Museum; Austin, Texas, Austin Museum of Art; Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, David Owsley Museum of Art; Hartford, Connecticut, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford; Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas Art Center; Colorado, Loveland Museum/Gallery; Kansas, Wichita Art Museum; Tampa, Florida, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; Charleston, Illinois, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University; Athens, Xippas Gallery and Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.
London, White Cube Mason's Yard, Chuck Close: Family and Others, 2007-2008, p. 68 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 69). This exhibition later travelled to St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum.
New York, Pace Gallery, Chuck Close: Selected Paintings and Tapestries 2005-2009, 2009 (another from the edition exhibited).

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