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VIJA CELMINS (B. 1939)
Lot 11 PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA

VIJA CELMINS (B. 1939)

Untitled

Closed25 July 2014

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VIJA CELMINS (B. 1939)
Untitled
signed and numbered 'XXII/XXV V. Celmins' in pencil (in the lower margin)
mezzotint on Rives BFK paper
16 7/8 x 14 in. (43 x 35.5 cm.)
Executed in 1995. Published by Parkett, Zurich. This work is number twenty-two from the edition of twenty-five.

McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

'Vija Celmins's mature work is a repeated image of uninhabitability, without foothold or air. It depicts space liquefied or rarefied, and further carbonized in the rendering. It is a space of drowning or asphyxiation, and, though without fantasy's comforts, of dreams.'

(Nancy Princenthal, Parkett No. 44, 1995, p. 72.)