Study for "Keith/4 Times"

1975

Chuck Close

Associated Names
Chuck Close

Artist, American, 1940 - 2021

There are four portraits of a person displayed side by side. The individual faces forward with a solemn expression, featuring medium-length dark hair with a side part and thick-framed glasses. They wear a dark turtleneck sweater under a dark jacket. The portraits are framed with a grid overlay, tape, and handwritten annotations on the borders. The background is plain.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    4 gelatin silver prints with annotations in graphite mounted on foam core with masking tape

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Stephen G. Stein

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 50.48 × 43.18 cm (19 7/8 × 17 in.)
    frame (each): 62.87 × 50.8 × 3.81 cm (24 3/4 × 20 × 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.5.21.a-d

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Chuck Close, New York; (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); Private collection; (sale, Christie’s, New York, 17 October 2007, lot 138); (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York); Stephen G. Stein, Washington, DC, November 2016; gift to NGA, 2021.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

Panel 1: signed by artist, below image, centered, on mount in graphite: C. Close 1975; top left corner: #1; along right edge perpendicular: Study for "Keith /4 times"
Panel 2: signed by artist, below image, centered, on mount in graphite: C. Close 1975; top left: #2; along right edge, perpendicular: Study for "Keith /4 times"
Panel 3: signed by artist, below image, centered, on mount in graphite: C. Close 1975; top center: #3; along right edge perpendicular: Study for "Keith /4 times"
Panel 4: signed by artist, below image, centered, on mount in graphite: C. Close 1975; top right: #4; along right edge perpendicular: Study for "Keith /4 times"

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