Lot 224
  • 224

Pavel Fedorovich Tchelitchew

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pavel Fedorovich Tchelitchew
  • Abstract Portrait
  • signed in Latin and dated 27 l.r.; bearing Centre Georges Pompidou label on the reverse inscribed with the name of the lender Galerie Gomès
  • mixed media on canvas
  • 127 by 89cm, 50 by 35in.

Provenance

Collection Henriette Gomès, Paris
Acquired by the present owner in the 1980s

Exhibited

Possibly Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/Moscou 1900-1930, 1979

Condition

Original canvas. There is some very light abrasion to the edges and minor paint shrinkage in places. Examination under UV light shows there is restoration to all the areas of thick impasto. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

A comparable work was exhibited in Paris at Galerie Lucie Weill, Hommage à Tchelitchew, 12 October - 12 November 1966