Sandy Nairne up close with Chuck

The National Portrait Gallery in London has done the double by acquiring the first major work by the US artist Chuck Close to enter a US public collection (the piece just so happens to depict the NPGs illustrious former director Sandy Nairne who was at the helm from 2002 to 2015). Closes six-foot tall, watercolour print portrait of Nairne is based on a large-format colour Polaroid photograph taken in the 20x24 Studio in New York. The artist has had a relationship with Nairne dating back to the g