Chuck CloseAmerican, 1940–2021President Bill Clinton
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “President Bill Clinton” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Washington, D.C., United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 2007.151.1
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- National Gallery of Art
- Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Chuck Close
The whole life2003–2016
The touring exhibition “Process and Collaboration”
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, organized by the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston and curated by Terrie Sultan, tours the world until 2016, with stops including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Miami Art Museum, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, White Cube in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, which Close visits in December 2014.
2005
Philip Glass writes a musical portrait of Close
The composer Philip Glass writes a musical portrait of Close, a 15-minute piece for solo piano, the idea of the pianist Bruce Levingston, who commissions it through the Premiere Commission and performs it at a recital at Alice Tully Hall that year.
10 May 2005
“John” sells at auction for $4.3 million
At Sotheby’s, John (1971) sells for $4,300,000, the most expensive of his works sold at auction; on the same day Eric (1990) sells for $2,700,000.
2007
A retrospective in Madrid, Aachen and the Hermitage
The retrospective Chuck Close Paintings: 1968/2006 opens at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and travels to the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
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