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Property from a Private Boston Collection

Vija Celmins

Pink Pearl Eraser

Auction Closed

September 30, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Boston Collection

Vija Celmins

b. 1938

Pink Pearl Eraser


acrylic on balsa wood

6¾ by 18½ by 3 in.

17.1 by 47 by 7.6 cm.

Executed in 1966-67, this work is 1 of 5 unique variants. 

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1971)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Los Angeles, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Actual Size: An Exhibition of Small Paintings and Sculpture, September - October 1985, (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vija Celmins, 1992 - 1994, p. 27, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Houston, The Menil Collection; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966, November 2010 - June 2011, pp. 18-19, illustrated, (another example exhibited)
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Pacific Standard Time, Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center, 2011 - 2012, (another example exhibited)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, December 2018 - January 2020, pp. 42-43, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Lane Relyea, Robert Gober, Briony Fer, eds., Vija Celmins, London, 2004, p. 62 (another example illustrated)