Lot 98
  • 98

Pavel Tchelitchew

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pavel Tchelitchew
  • Nude
  • signed in Latin and dated 27 t.r.
  • sand, ink and gouache on paper laid on card
  • 50 by 33cm, 19 3/4 by 13in.

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, Impressionist & Modern Art, Including Russian Art, 14 March 2012, lot 112

Exhibited

New York, Gallery of Modern Art, A Survey of Russian Painting. Fifteenth Century to the Present, 14 June - 17 September 1967

Literature

A Survey of Russian Painting. Fifteenth Century to the Present, New York: The Gallery of Modern Art, 1967, p.65 listed 

Condition

The sheet has been laid down on card. There are pinholes in each of the corners. Visible along the left edge are repaired tears. The sheet is undulating. There is some loss to the sand layer in places. There is foxing and spots of dirt, restricted mostly to the edges of the sheet. The sheet has discoloured in line with age. Held in a painted wooden frame behind Plexiglass. Unexamined out of frame.
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