PAVEL TCHELITCHEW | BONNE ANNÉE 1940

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November 18, 07:09 PM GMT

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PAVEL TCHELITCHEW (1898 - 1957)

BONNE ANNÉE 1940

Signed P. Tchelitchew, dated 39 and inscribed indistinctly (lower left); titled (toward upper left); dedicated to Julien to be merry from Pavlik (toward lower left)

Pen and ink and ink wash on paper

10½ by 8¼ in. (26.7 by 21 cm)

Framed: 18⅝ by 16½ in. (47.3 by 42 cm)

Executed in 1940.

Julien Levy, New York (a gift from the artist)

Jean Levy, New York (by descent from the above and sold by the estate: Tajan, Paris, October 5, 2004, lot 44)

Gallery of Surrealism, New York

Acquired from the above in April 2005

New York, Gallery of Surrealism, Eugene Berman—Pavel Tchelitchew, Neo-Romantic Master Works from the 1930s and 1940s, 2005, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue