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LA COOL: The Collection of Laura Lee Stearns
VIJA CELMINS (B. 1938)
Untitled (Moon Surface #1)
Details
VIJA CELMINS (B. 1938)
Untitled (Moon Surface #1)
graphite on acrylic ground on paper
13 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. (34.6 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
Untitled (Moon Surface #1)
graphite on acrylic ground on paper
13 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. (34.6 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
Provenance
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1970
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1970
Literature
L. Relyea, R. Gober and B. Fer, Vija Celmins, London/New York, 2004, pp. 76-77 (illustrated).
C. Whiting, "'It's Only a Paper Moon' The Cyborg Eye of Vija Celmins", Smithsonian American Art Museum, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 49, 51, no. 13 (illustrated).
C. Whiting, "'It's Only a Paper Moon' The Cyborg Eye of Vija Celmins", Smithsonian American Art Museum, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 49, 51, no. 13 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Newport Harbor Art Museum; Arts Club of Chicago; Yonkers, Hudson River Museum and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition, December 1979 - October 1980, pp. 52 and 84, no. 28 (illustrated).
Paris, Center Pompidou and Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Vija Celmins, October 2006 - April 2007.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, December 2018 - December 2020, pp. 70, 263 (illustrated).
Paris, Center Pompidou and Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Vija Celmins, October 2006 - April 2007.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, December 2018 - December 2020, pp. 70, 263 (illustrated).
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