LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gouache on paper laid on board

Measurements:

41.34 in. (105.00 cm.) (height) by 29.53 in. (75.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Latin and dated 34 t.r.; further bearing exhibition labels and variously inscribed on the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, Vassar College Art Gallery, Paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew, 1938. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tchelitchew: Paintings and Drawings, 1942, no.37. Buenos Aires, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Pavel Tchelitchew. Pinturas y Dibujos, 15 February - 10 September 1949, no.11. New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Pavel Tchelitchew, 20 March - 19 April 1964, no.130. New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Pavel Tchelitchew: The Landscape of the Body, 16 June - 6 September 1998 .

Literature:

K.Millburn, 'Taylor [Hall] Exhibits Paintings of Contemporary Artist', The Vassar Miscellany News, Poughkeepsie, New York, vol.XXII, 1938, mentioned in the review on p.3. Exhibition catalogue Tchelitchew: Paintings and Drawings, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1942, p.54, no.41 illustrated; p.91, no.37 listed. Exhibition catalogue Pavel Tchelitchew. Pinturas y Dibujos, Buenos Aires, 1949, no.11 illustrated. Exhibition catalogue Pavel Tchelitchew, New York, Gallery of Modern Art, 1964, p.20, pl.15 illustrated in b/w; p.61, no.130 listed. P.Tyler, The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew, New York, 1967, p.409 illustrated. L.Kirstein, Tchelitchew, Santa Fe, 1994, no.40 illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Pavel Tchelitchew: The Landscape of the Body, 1998, New York, p.50 listed; p.27 illustrated. A.Kuznetsov, Pavel Tchelitchew. Metamorphoses, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2012, p.187, no.159 illustrated

Provenance:

Julien Levy Gallery (acquired directly from the artist). Charles Henri Ford, New York. Sotheby’s New York, 11 May 1988, lot 175. Previously in the Georges Bemberg Collection