Keith 1
1981
Pressed pulp paper
35 x 25”

Self Portrait
2007
200 color silkscreen
80 x 60”

Chuck Close (1940–2021) was born in Monroe, Washington, and died in Oceanside, New York. He was an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist through his massive-scale portraits. Close was known for using creative and intricate patterns to portray a human portrait. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors. Chuck Close is renowned for his highly inventive techniques of painting the human face, and is best known for his large-scale, photo-based portrait paintings.