Untitled (Comet)
1988
Painter, American, born Latvia, 1938

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 40.3 x 47 cm (15 7/8 x 18 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2005.142.13
Artwork history & notes
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
Exhibition History
1988
Vija Celmins: New Paintings, David McKee Gallery, New York, 1988.
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.
Selections from the Broida Collection, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida, 1992, unnumbered brochure.
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).
Wikidata ID
Q20197969