LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.24 in. (89.50 cm.) (height) by 45.67 in. (116.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'P Tchelitchew 33' (lower left)

Exhibited:

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings by Pavel Tchelitchew, 23 February-18 March 1933, no. 17 (label on the stretcher). New York, Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art, Pavel Tchelitchew, 20 March-9 April 1964, no. 121 (label on the frame). Brighton, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, A Surreal Life: Edward James 1907-1984, 25 April-26 July 1998, no. 55 (label on the stretcher).

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings by Pavel Tchelitchew, London, 1933, no. 17. J.T. Soby, Tchelitchew: Paintings and Drawings, New York, 1942, illustrated p. 61, no. 36. Exhibition catalogue, Pavel Tchelitchew, New York, 1964, listed p. 60, no. 121. P. Tyler, The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew, New York, 1967, p. 132. N. Coleby (ed.), A Surreal Life: Edward James 1907-1984, London, 1998, no. 55. Exhibition catalogue, Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous, Edinburgh, 2016, p. 206.

Provenance:

with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.