Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection
VIJA CELMINS | NIGHT SKY #7
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
VIJA CELMINS
b.1939
NIGHT SKY #7
oil on canvas
38 by 47 in. 96.5 by 119.4 cm.
Executed in 1995.
McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1996
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
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)