Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Ocean Surface, 2006
Screenprint · Paper · ed. 2/4
Phillips · Oct 21, 2025$30,960 ≈ £23,148 ≈ €26,674Sign up free to see price
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Night Sky #3
Vija Celmins (American, b. 1939) · 1991
$2,405,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ £1,435,392≈ €1,760,744
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas, laid on wood panel”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated
- Category
- Design (named designers)
- Dimensions
- 18 x 21 1/2 in. (45.7 x 54.6 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Contemporary Art Evening Sale (NY010314)
- Date
- May 15, 2014
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 20
- Estimate
- $2,000,000 – $3,000,000 (≈ £1,193,674 – £1,790,510) (≈ €1,464,236 – €2,196,354)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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