Chuck Close - Self Portrait/Composite/9 Parts - card (Hand Signed by Chuck Close), 1979, 2016

Chuck Close - Self Portrait/Composite/9 Parts - card (Hand Signed by Chuck Close), 1979, 2016

Chuck Close - Self Portrait/Composite/9 Parts - card (Hand Signed by Chuck Close), 1979, 2016
offset lithograph postcard
Hand signed in black marker on the front
Obtained directly from the artist
Published by the Whitney Museum

Chuck Close used the 20×24 Polaroid camera to produce immense images of his own face, including the breakthrough 1979 work Self-Portrait/Composite/Nine Parts, which this card depicts. (Created using early access to a large-format Polaroid camera, Close assembled multiple overlapping photographic fragments to construct a fragmented, mosaic-like close-up of his own face, a technique that laid the groundwork for his signature grid-based portraiture.)
This work has been elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality painted wood frame under UV plexiglass.
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches (vertical) by 9.5 inches (horizontal) by 2.inches
Artwork:
6 inches (vertical) by 4.25 inches (horizontal)