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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.36
People
Chuck Close, American (Monroe, Washington 1940 - 2021 Oceanside, New York)
Title
Mark/Maquette II
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1977
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310033

Physical Descriptions

Medium
C-print (cyan color separation) mounted on foam-core with felt-tipped pen numbers, black ink grid, acrylic airbrush marks, and masking tape
Technique
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
actual: 51 x 40.3 cm (20 1/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed on mount, bottom: cyan; top: Mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Chuck Close. Private Collector; to [G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Chuck Close
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.36
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chuck Close: Recent Work, auct. cat. (New York, NY, 1979), n.p. (see section on "Mark"), repr.
  • Lisa Lyons and Martin Friedman, Close Portraits, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, 1980), pp. 70-71, repr.
  • Christopher Finch, Chuck Close: Work, Prestel (Munich and New York, 2007)

Verification Level

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