1994
Paul
Chuck CloseAmerican, 1940 - 2021
This portrait of American artist Paul Cadmus (1904–1999) derives from a Polaroid photograph that Close charted with a grid pattern and transposed, unit by unit, onto a large canvas. In creating a complex map of the face, the regularity of the grid becomes a vehicle for sumptuous, inventive painting that subtly balances representation with abstraction.
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