PAVEL TCHELITCHEW | STUDY FOR "PHENOMENA"

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July 24, 04:55 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Gordon Shwayder Rosenblum

PAVEL TCHELITCHEW

1898 - 1957

STUDY FOR "PHENOMENA"

Signed P. Tchelitchew and dated 38 (lower left)

Pen and ink and pencil on paper

7½ by 11 in. (19.4 by 28 cm)

Framed: 16¼ by 19¼ in. (41.3 by 48.9 cm)

Executed in 1938.

Estate of the artist

Victor P. Obninsky

Aaron S. Milberg, San Francisco

Private Collection, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, September 24, 1981, lot 42)

James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above

This drawing is a study for the grotesque figure embedded in a wall in the upper right of the artist's major canvas, Phenomena, of 1936-38, in the collection of the Tretyakov Art Gallery, Moscow.