Description
VIJA CELMINS
b.1939
NIGHT SKY #7
oil on canvas
38 by 47 in. 96.5 by 119.4 cm.
Executed in 1995.
Condition Report
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Saleroom Notice
Provenance
McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1996
Literature
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997 Biennial Exhibition, 1997, p. 65, illustrated in color
Lane Relyea, Robert Gober and Briony Fer Eds., Vija Celmins, London 2004, p. 97, illustrated in color
Exhibited
Art Institute of Chicago, About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, March - May 1995, no. 5
Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Vija Celmins, September - December 1995, pp. 24-25, illustrated
New York, McKee Gallery, Vija Celmins: Night Sky Paintings 1994-1996, February - April 1996
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, December 2018 - January 2020, p. 149, illustrated in color, and p. 266 (text) (New York only)
