Chuck Close
The Missing Peace: Artists and the Dalai Lama
100% of the profits from the Missing Peace Project benefit the Dalai Lama Foundation.
Artists and the Dalai Lama is a multi-media traveling art exhibition that brings together the work of 88 artists from 30 countries (among them Chuck Close, Richard Avedon, Jenny Holzer, Marina Abramovic, Anish Kapoor, Laurie Anderson, Bill Viola). The intention of the project is to shift the world's attention towards peace by exposing millions of people around the world to art inspired by the universal messages of the Dalai Lama.
CHUCK CLOSE - The Dalai Lama, 2005
digital pigment print on Crane Museo paper
39.5 by 33 inches image; 49 by 41.5 inches paper; framed
Signed Edition 2/15
$9,400
Chuck Close is known for his large iconic portraits such as this photograph of the Dalai Lama.
Born in 1940, the career of Chuck Close extends beyond his completed works of art. Highly renowned as a painter, Close is also a master printmaker who has, over the course of more than 30 years, pushed the boundaries of traditional printmaking. He achieved his international reputation by demonstrating that a very traditional art form, portraiture, could be resurrected as a challenging form of contemporary expression. Today, publications surveying contemporary art history routinely discuss his painting, and most modern art museum in the US and Western Europe feature his work in their collections.