Pavel TCHELITCHEV.

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Pavel TCHELITCHEV.
Object painting. 1926. Mixed media on canvas, oil, string and matches, signed upper right (55 x 47.5 cm). Superb painting-sculpture by Pavel Tchelitchev made shortly after his installation in Paris. Painter of Russian origin, Pavel Tchelitchev (1898-1957) was also a creator of costumes and sets for the theatre. Installed in Paris in 1923, he was linked with René Crevel - whose portrait he made for L'Esprit contre la raison -, Gertrude Stein, Christian Bérard, etc. He worked for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s. In the 1940s, he illustrated several issues of the surrealist magazine View, directed by his companion Charles Henri Ford: one of the issues was devoted to him with Tanguy. (Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et de ses environs, p. 400.) Exhibition: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Moscou 1900-1930, Paris, 1979, p. 680. Provenance: - Former collection of Henriette and André Gomès; - Briest sale, 18 June 1997, no. 184.
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