One of America’s most famed painters, Chuck Close, has passed away at the age of 81. Known for his large-scale photorealist paintings, often self-portraits and portraits of friends and fellow artists, including Bill Clinton’s presidential portrait in 2000, the painters works often loomed large in museums and galleries worldwide throughout his career. Close had spent his life since 1988 in a wheelchair due to an injury to a spinal blood vessel that left him nearly paralyzed. After a diagnosis of dementia in 2015 and then accusations of sexual harassment in 2017, Close had been away from the public eye before is death on the 19th of August
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