Lot 144
  • 144

Pavel Tchelitchew

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Pavel Tchelitchew
  • Spiral Interior Landscape with Hair
  • Signed P. Tchelitchew and dated II/52 (lower left)
  • Pastel on blue paper
  • 19 3/4 by 12 3/4 in.
  • 50.2 by 32.4 cm
  • Executed in 1952.

Provenance

The estate of the artist
Charles Henri Ford, New York and Paris (acquired from the above and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 19, 1983, lot 262)
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago
Acquired from the above in February 1989

Exhibited

San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in the 20th Century, 1955, lent through Durlacher Brothers, New York
New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Pavel Tchelitchew, 1964, no. 315

Condition

Colored pastel on blue paper. Artist's pinholes visible at all 4 corners and center of each edge. Minor rippling and darkened extreme edges. In overall good condition. Not examined out of the frame.
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