About this artwork
Chuck Close makes monumental portrait paintings based on photographs, following the same procedure each time: he covers a closely cropped photograph in a grid and then replicates the source image at a larger scale. After becoming partially paralyzed in 1988, the artist deepened his engagement with photography, as he explored potentially painterly results in a finished photograph. This 20 × 24–inch Polaroid diptych gives us a portrait of the artist as a two-part fragment, like two panes in one of his gridded paintings.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Chuck Close
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Title
- Two Part Self-Portrait
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1989
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Medium
- Internal dye diffusion transfer print
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Dimensions
- Each image: 61 × 52.2 cm (24 1/16 × 20 9/16 in.); each paper: 75 × 56 cm (29 9/16 × 22 1/16 in.); frame: 90.6 × 120.2 × 7.5 cm (35 11/16 × 47 3/8 × 3 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
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Reference Number
- 1992.659
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