Chuck Close: Red, Yellow and Blue: The Last Paintings Books this publication illuminates the fifteen

this publication illuminates the fifteen new paintings in the exhibition and situates them within the artist’s evolving practice

and Mason Leaver-Yap in both English and Arabic

Co-published with David Kordansky Gallery

whose sixty-year career has been an ongoing investigation of materiality

” — Joel Smith

Chuck Close: Red, Yellow and Blue: The Last Paintings Books this publication illuminates the fifteenPublished on the occasion of Pace Gallery's first exhibition of his work since the artist's death in 2021, Chuck Close: Red, Yellow, and BlueThe Last Paintings spotlights Close's final body of paintings, which employ a palette of only three colors. Layering transparent glazes of red, yellow, and blue paint, Close created an effect of abstract likeness entirely different from that of his previous work. Alongside studio photography and images of Close's