Nov 17, 2011 - Sale 2262

Sale 2262 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW
Portrait of a Soldier.

Brush and ink and wash on illustration board. 264x210 mm; 10 3/8x8 1/4 inches. Signed in black ink, upper right recto.

Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957) was a Russian-born painter, set designer and costume designer, who spent much of his artistic career in New York and Paris. He collaborated with the famous set and costume designers Sergei Diaghliev and George Balanchine, illustrated his drawings appeared in various magazines and he produced portraits for many well-known luminaries, including Gertrude Stein.