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MARCH 2024 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 109:
Pavel Tchelitchew (Russian, 1898–1957), a watercolor, gouache and sequins on illustration board painting
Charles Henri Ford, 1935. Signed P Tchelitchew and inscribed 35 II / Chicago (lower right), also inscribed Spangled / Head / P Tchelitchew 1935 / Chicago / to store until my return / in Nov, 1949 (verso). Framed. Bears a McDougall’s auction house, Hedley’s Fine Art and other paper labels attached to the backside.
Provenance: The estate of Madam Lucia Davidova, New York (Sale Sotheby’s New York September 29, 1994 lot 264, illustrated); Sotheby’s New York, The collecting Eye of Seymour Stein 11 Dec 03 lot 213.
Exhibitions: 01/01/2009–01/03/2009 “American Artists from the Russian Empire” State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Tretiakov Gallery Moscow 2009.
Literature: “A Time to Gather… Russian Art From Foreign Private collections”, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2008, illustrated on p.22; Art+Auction, March 2008, illustrated on p. 83.
Note: Pavel Tchelitchew is a Russian, American artist, known for Abstract figures, portraits, and fantasy. A Russian-born painter and stage designer, Pavel Tchelitchew worked in many styles, changing several times and doing much experimentation. He was especially known for his almost surrealist renderings of the human body without its skin, similar to anatomical studies. He began as a Cubist, and did modernist figure paintings in the style of Picasso and then moved on to Neo-Romanticism and Surrealism. He was the founder of mystical surrealism 9 years before Salvador Dali.
30 x 20 1/8 in., (76.2 x 51.11 cm)
Condition: Good, no apparent signs of restoration or damage.
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