Lot 137
  • 137

PAVEL TCHELITCHEW | Lemon

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • After Pavel Tchelitchew
  • Lemon
  • signed in Latin and dated 54 l.r.
  • pastel on coloured paper
  • 66 by 48.5cm, 26 by 19in.

Provenance

Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
Cornette de Saint Cyr Bruxelles, Art Contemporain, 18 October 2010, lot 74
Private collection, Monaco
Auctionata, Blue Chips: Post-War & Contemporary Art, 25 June 2015, lot 54

Literature

A.Kuznetsov, Pavel Tchelitchew. Metamorphoses, Stuttgart: ARNOLDSCHE Art Publishers, 2012, p.272, no.248 illustrated

Condition

The sheet is slightly rippling. There are pinholes visible in places along the edges. There are two small holes to the middle of the right edge and a small tear to the middle of the top edge and a few nicks to the edges elsewhere. There is a light layer of surface dirt with a few scattered spots of dirt in places. The sheet has been attached to the mount along all the edges and corners. Held in a gold painted wooden frame behind glass. Unexamined out of frame.
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