Chuck Close, Pace Editions, Inc., New York, and others
Lucas/Woodcut
1992
Scroll
- Artist: Chuck Close
- Publisher: Pace Editions, Inc., New York
- Printer: Karl Hecksher
Lucas/Woodcut
1992
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut with color stencil (pochoir), Sheet: 1181 × 914 mm. (46 1/2 × 36 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Peyton Eggleston, Baltimore
Object Number
1999.765
Chuck Close has collaborated with several master printers to translate his monumental painted portraits into various print media. In the case of Lucas/Woodcut, Karl Hecksher worked from a color reproduction of Close’s painting of the artist Lucas Samaras (now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art) to develop a special process that simulates Close’s abstract system of mark making and complex build-up of pigment. Hecksher made a
woodblock composed of multiple parts, like a jigsaw puzzle, and then carefully inked each part with a different color. After printing, Hecksher used a stencil to apply additional layers of color and texture to the image.
(RH, 2009)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by partial and promised gift, 1999; Dr. Peyton Eggleston, Baltimore, by purchase, 1998; Pace Prints, New York
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Woodcuts Now," 9 December 2009 - 28 March 2010.
Printworld Directory of Contemporary Prints & Prices, Bala Cynwyd, PA: Printworld, Inc., 1998, p. 201. The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of his Subjects, New York: A.R.T. Press, 1997, p. 279-294.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "11/50"; lower right in graphite: "CClose 1993"
