SURREALISM TCHELITCHEW PAVEL Three Inscribed works

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(SURREALISM.) TCHELITCHEW, PAVEL. Three Inscribed works for Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications at The Museum of Modern Art. Illustrations and color plate reproductions of Tchelitchew's works. 8vo, cloth; original dust jackets. Numerous related ephemera laid in, and with occasional marginalia and edits by Wheeler. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott. New York, 1942; 1944;

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Two copies of Yesterday's Children, Tchelitchew's illustrations for his canvas Hide and Seek, with an accompanying poem by Parker Tyler. The first copy incribed "To Glen [Glenway Wescott] - my forest: for walks and dreams. Love Pavlik" and the second" To Monroe - my favorite boy - a world of my own - without beginning or end - love, Pavlik." New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944 Soby, James Thrall. Tchelitchew" Paintings, Drawings. Inscribed to Wheeler by Tchelitchew on title-page and by Soby on front blank: "For Monroe, with thanks for his superhuman kindness and patience and understanding of exhibition intricacies. Jim." With a signed invitation to a going away party for Tchelitchew at Charles Henri Ford's house. And with Wheeler's annotations of additional paintings penciled into the catalogue and checklists at the end. New York: Museum of Modern Art. (1944).