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VIJA CELMINS (B. 1939)

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16.05.2023 01:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 950128
Lot 7 | VIJA CELMINS (B. 1939)
VIJA CELMINS (B. 1939)

Untitled (Divided Rectangle)

oil on canvas

14 1/8 x 18 in. (35.9 x 45.7 cm.)

Painted in 1986-1987.





Provenance

David McKee Gallery, New York

Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson

By descent from the above to the present owner



Literature

L. Relyea, et al., Vija Celmins, New York, 2004, pp. 138-139 (illustrated).

E. Reifert, Die "Night Sky"-Gemälde von Vija Celmins: Malerei zwischen Repräsentationskritik und Sichtbarkeitsereignis, Bielefeld, 2011, pp. 122 and 231, fig. 27 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, David McKee Gallery, Vija Celmins: New Paintings, November-December 1988.

Santa Monica, Pence Gallery, Good Works, 1989.

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vija Celmins, November 1992-February 1994, p. 95 (illustrated).

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, p. 357, cat. no. 40.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, December 2018-August 2019, pp. 140-141 and 265 (illustrated).
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