Jun 24, 2021 - Sale 2574
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Sale 2574 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW (1898-1957)
Set design. For an unidentified production, possibly Orpheus, 1936. Double-sided folio sheet containing a half-page image of a rustic dwelling's exterior in brown ink and wash facing rough sketches of design details in graphite and ink; the verso contains an inset sketch of a forest path beneath a thick archway of bare-branched trees, facing left is a Daphne-like figure of a woman whose limbs morph into branches, a rough sketch of a kneeling angel beneath her, smaller abstract shapes drawn in surrounding margins. Brown ink, wash, and graphite on paper. 290 x420 mm; 11 1/2x16 1/2 inches. Displayed in double-sided 20 1/2x26-inch gold wood frame.

Provenance: Ex-collection Tamara Toumanova; Chevalier Tony Clark Collection.
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