Vija Celmins, Night Sky #23

signed and dated "V. Celmins 03" lower right
charcoal on paper
16 1/8 x 22 in. (41 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 2003.

Provenance:
McKee Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003

Exhibited:
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Galerie du Musée; Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, Vija Celmins, l'oeuvre dessiné / Vija Celmins, A Drawings Retrospective, October 25, 2006 - April 22, 2007, no. 66, pp. 139, 167 (illustrated, p. 138)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Vija Celmins: Wüste, Meer & Sterne / Desert, Seas & Stars, April 15, 2011 - January 8, 2012, p. 135 (illustrated, p. 115)

A Discerning Vision Property from an Important Private Collection