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.
Provenance
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
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).
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).
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.
Provenance
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
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).
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).
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