Jun 04, 2015 - Sale 2386

Sale 2386 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW
Italian Family.

Silverpoint on smooth wove paper, 1937. 460x317 mm; 18x12 1/2 inches. Signed in silverpoint, lower right recto.

Ex-collection Lincoln Kirstein, New York.

Exhibited "Tchelitchew," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1942, catalogue number 138.

Published in Kirstein, Tchelitchew Drawings, New York, 1947, number 26. According to Kirstein, the drawing is, "Part of the early studies for the large canvas Phenomena, 1936-38, now in the collection of Tret'yakov Gal, Moscow."