Four Stones

Contemporary Art

1977/2014-16

Vija Celmins
American, born 1938

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Vija Celmins
Title: Four Stones
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Medium: Two found objects and two made objects: alkyd oil on bronze, with artist's pedestal
Dimensions: Overall dimensions: 3 × 17 × 15 cm (1 1/8 × 6 1/2 × 5 3/4 in.); Pedestal: 133 × 66 × 66 cm (52 1/4 × 26 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Jack Shear
Reference Number: 2021.31a-e

Bob Nickas, Vija Celmins, exh. cat. (New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017), 74, 75 (color ill.).
Brigitte Kölle, ed., Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter: Double Vision, exh. cat. (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023), 205 (color ill.).

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Vija Celmins, Feb. 10-April 22, 2017, no cat. no.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter: Double Vision, May 12–Aug. 27, 2023, no cat. no.

The artist; sold through Matthew Marks, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, April 13, 2021.

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