Feb 07, 2008 - Sale 2135

Sale 2135 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CLOSE, CHUCK (1940- )
Portrait of the artist Phyllis Galembo. Unique oversize Polaroid print, 24x20 1/2 inches (61x52.1 cm.), with Close's signature and date, in ink, on recto; framed. 1980
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Phyllis Galembo is known for her remarkable portraits of Africans and Caribbeans, which also explore religious beliefs and rituals, including the practice of voodoo.

Her works are included in the: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New York Public Library; Houston Museum of Art; Polaroid Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; and Rockefeller Foundation, New York.