A piece in Bloomberg this week looks at the market for Vija Celmins, and how the artist’s growing market stature might explode after her show opens this fall at the Met Breuer. “Her collector base grew from the initial people who were interested to other people who saw her museum shows and wanted a work in their collection,†says dealer Renee McKee. “It was always as difficult to get her to release her work as it was to get her to raise her prices. That’s Vija.â€
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