Two Stones

©Vija Celmins, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

Contemporary Art

1977/2014-2016

Vija Celmins
American, born 1938

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Vija Celmins
Title: Two Stones
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1977–2016
Medium: One found object and one made object: alkyd oil on bronze, with artist’s pedestal
Dimensions: Overall: 5.8 × 20.4 × 14 cm (2 1/4 × 8 × 5 1/2 in.); Pedestal: 133 × 66 × 66 cm (52 3/8 × 26 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior purchase with funds provided by Jack Shear
Reference Number: 2024.290a-c

Bob Nickas, Vija Celmins, exh. cat. (New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017), cover (color ill.), 60, 61 (color ill.).
Gary Garrels, Russell Ferguson, Frances Jacobus-Parker, Suzanne Perling Hudson, Ian Alteveer, Briony Fer, Meredith A. Brown, and Nancy Lim, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), 224 (color ill.), 264.
Brigitte Kölle, ed., Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter: Double Vision, exh. cat. (Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2023), cover (color ill.), 176, 177 (color ill.), 180, 249.

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Vija Celmins, Feb. 10–Apr. 22, 2017, no cat. no.
Los Angeles, Matthew Marks Gallery, Vija Celmins, Jan. 27–Mar. 31, 2018, no cat.
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, Dec. 15, 2018–Mar. 31, 2019,no cat. no.; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, May 4–Aug. 4, 2019; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 24, 2019–Jan. 12, 2020.
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, Sept. 10, 2024.

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