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Chuck Close’s Art Collection (This Time You Can See the Art…or Some of It)

December 6, 2013 by Marion Maneker

08well-collections-custom4A few weeks ago we excerpted one woman’s description of Chuck Close’s art collection. Here T Magazine finishes the job with a picture and an interview (by Linda Yablonsky) with the artist himself:

Strangely, he says, “I’m not acquisitive.” Yet on either side of an interior hallway are dozens of portraits, small drawings, photographs and paintings, many by artists Close has painted. They include Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Cindy Sherman, Irving Penn and Alex Katz, as well as Jacob Lawrence, Diane Arbus and Man Ray. Most were trades, though a cut-paper collage by Ray Johnson was a purchase. One section of the work is blank, removed by the artist after Close requested a 20 percent discount. “Contemporary art is the most overpriced, overvalued stuff — thank God,” he says. “But old masters are the most powerful.”

The Collections of Artists (T Magazine)

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