Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)
Lot 102

Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)

Study for 'Hide and Seek'

Closed24 November 2014

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GBP 6,250

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Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)
Study for 'Hide and Seek'
signed, inscribed and dated 'To dear Mrs Gorer and Geoffrey/with love/from/Pavlik/P Tchelitchew/1941' (lower right)
ink and watercolour, heightened with white, on paper
14½ x 10½ in. (37 x 26.7 cm.)

Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985) (label on the reverse).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1985, lot 455.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present work is a study for one of Tchelitchew's greatest paintings, Hide and Seek, which was completed in 1942 and is now held in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.