Tulip Car #1

1966

Vija Celmins

Painter, American, born Latvia, 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Edward R. Broida

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40.6 x 68.6 cm (16 x 27 in.)
    framed: 44.13 × 69.53 × 3.81 cm (17 3/8 × 27 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.142.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(David Stewart Gallery); sold 1966 to Audrey Sabol (born 1922), Villanova, Pennsylvania, through at least 1980.[1] (Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York and Los Angeles); purchased January 1986 by Edward R. Broida [1933-2006], Los Angeles; gift (partial and promised) 2005 to NGA; gift completed 2006.
[1] Mrs. Sabol lent the painting to an exhibition that travelled from 1979 through the end of October 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach; Arts Club of Chicago; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979-1980, no. 10, repro.

1990

  • The Times, The Chronicle & The Observer, Kent Fine Art, Inc., New York, 1990-1991, no. 8, repro.

1992

  • Selections from the Broida Collection, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida, 1992, unnumbered brochure.

  • Vija Celmins, Inst. of Cont. Art, Univ. of Penn., Philadelphia; Henry Art Gal., Univ. of Washington, Seattle; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Mus. of Am. Art, New York; Mus. of Cont. Art, Los Angeles, 1992-1994, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1997

  • Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1997, no. 20, fig. 66.

2006

  • Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006, unnumbered brochure, fig. 10.

2007

  • The Painting of Modern Life: 1960s to Now, Hayward Gallery, London; Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, 2007-2008, no. 12, repro. (shown only in London).

2010

  • Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966, The Menil Collection, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2010-2011, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2013

  • Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg-Kirchberg; Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2013-2015, fig. 46.

2017

  • The American Dream: Amerikanischer Realismus 1945-2017, Drents Museum, Assen, Kunsthalle Emden, 2017-2018, unnumbered catalogue (shown only in Emden).

Wikidata ID

Q20196657

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