Untitled (Comet), 1988

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 40.3 x 47 cm (15 7/8 x 18 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Accession Number

2005.142.13

Artists / Makers

Vija Celmins (painter) American, born Latvia, 1938

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Provenance

(David McKee Gallery, New York); purchased November 1988 by Edward R. Broida [1933-2006], Los Angeles; gift (partial and promised) 2005 to NGA; gift completed 2006.

Associated Names

Edward R. Broida Trust
McKee Gallery, David

Exhibition History

1988: Vija Celmins: New Paintings, David McKee Gallery, New York, 1988.

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

1992: 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.

1996: Vija Celmins Works 1964-96, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Kunstmuseum, Wintherthur, Switzerland; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2006: Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006, unnumbered brochure, fig. 11.

2008: Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2008-2009, unnumbered catalogue.

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