Chuck Close
American, 1940-2021
Two Part Self-Portrait
INV-1208
Chuck Close
American, 1940-20211989
Two Part Self-Portrait
Chuck Close American, 1940-2021 →internal dye diffusion transfer printphotographic process
Date
1989
Medium
Internal dye diffusion transfer print
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
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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