Vija CelminsSky 1975

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Artist
Vija Celmins (born 1938)
Title
Sky
Date 1975
MediumLithograph on paper
Dimensionsimage: 315 x 420 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased 1999
Reference
P78334
Not on display

Summary

Sky is one of a set of four lithographs Celmins made from pencil drawings of a day-time sky, a night sky (Galaxy Tate P78335), the surface of a sea (Ocean Tate P78336) and an area of rocky desert earth (Desert Tate P78337). The lithographs were produced in an edition of seventy-five, of which Tate’s copies are the artist’s proofs. The set was printed by the Cirrus Press, Los Angeles and published by the artist.

Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia. In 1944, fleeing the advancing Soviet army, her family settled in Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1949. She grew up in Indianapolis, where she attended the John Heron Art Institute (graduated 1962), and then moved to Venice, California where she completed a Masters Degree in Painting at the University of California in Los Angeles (1965). She relocated to New York in 1981… (read more)

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