Lot 52
  • 52

PAVEL TCHELITCHEW | L'Homme à la houpe, 1953

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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Description

  • After Pavel Tchelitchew
  • L'Homme à la houpe, 1953
  • pastel
  • 65 x 50 cm ; 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.
pastel on blue paperSigned in Latin and dated I/53 l.r.

Provenance

Artcurial, March 15, 2004, lot 103
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Hommage à Tchelitchew, Galerie Lucie Weill, Paris, October 12 - November 12, 1966, n. 26  

Literature

Hommage à Tchelitchew, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1966, n.26 illustrated in b/w

Condition

The sheet is loose. There are pinholes along all four borders. There is slight creasing in places, notably to the upper left. The sheet is undulating very slightly across the composition. Traces of humidity in the upper half, visible on the reverse. There are remnants of paper from the backing sheet along the top, right and bottom borders on the reverse. Held in a black wooden frame under glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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