Aug 19, 2021 - Sale 2578

Sale 2578 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

PAVEL TCHELITCHEW (1898-1957)


Standing Man Facing an Animal.
Pen and ink on thin cream wove paper. 215x276 mm; 8 1/2x10 inches. With a sketch on the verso. Circa 1939.

Provenance: Estate of the artist; Collection of Lincoln Kirstein, New York; inherited by (Alexander) Jensen Yow, New York; private collection, New York.

This work may relate to two oil paintings by Tchelitchew, both titled Portrait of My Father sold Christie's, London, February 5, 2009, lot 444 and Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2010, lot 381, respectively.