8 June 2016 Russian Art and Photography Auctions
8 June 2016
* 56. TCHELITCHEW, PAVEL (1898-1957)
Head of a Young Boy with Floating Eggs, signed.
Oil on canvas , 65 by 46.5 cm.
30,000-40,000 GBP
Provenance: Collection of Ruth Ford (Mrs Zachary Scott) and Charles Henri Ford, New York.
With Richard Nathanson, London, c. 1980 (label on the frame on the reverse).
Russian Art, Sotheby’s London, 22 April 2010, lot 305.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Private collection, USA.
Exhibited: Possibly, Pavel Tchelitchew, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, September–October 1983.
Literature: A. Kuznetsov, Pavel Tchelitchew. Metamorphoses, Stuttgart, Arnoldsche, 2012, p. 71, No. 19, illustrated; p. 285, listed.
Notes on symbols:
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