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Decadence & Decay: Works from an Important Private Collection

Pavel Tchelitchew

The Russian Singer

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Decadence & Decay: Works from an Important Private Collection

Pavel Tchelitchew

1898 - 1957

The Russian Singer


signed P. Tchelitchew and dated '35 (upper right)

pen and ink on paper

13 by 16½ in.

33 by 41.9 cm.

Executed in Malcesine, Lake Garda in Summer 1935. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Kirstein, New York (acquired from the artist by 1942)
Private Collection (acquired as a gift from the above)
Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York
Sotheby's New York, 6 May 2010, lot 382 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Lincoln Kirstein, Pavel Tchelitchew Drawings, New York, 1970, no. 28, illustrated
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tchelitchew, 1942, no. 127