Chuck Close: Red, Yellow and Blue: The Last Paintings Books Co-published with David Kordansky Gallery

Co-published with David Kordansky Gallery

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

Agnes Martin

this volume is a sensitive homage to a canonical artist

as well as a conversation with Lauren O’Neill-Butler and Adam Pendleton

Chuck Close: Red, Yellow and Blue: The Last Paintings Books Co-published with David Kordansky GalleryPublished 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