PAVEL TCHELITCHEW (RUSSIAN 1898-1957) §
HEAD OF A CLOWN, 1938
£2,772
Auction: The Gillian Raffles Collection Day - Lots 74 to 123 - Friday 02 May at 10:00
Description
signed and dated in ink (lower right), pen, ink, watercolour and wash on paper
Dimensions
37cm x 26.5cm (14 ½in x 10 3/8in)
Provenance
The Collection of Gillian Raffles.
Footnote
This work is a return to the metamorphic and trompe l'oeil themes in Tchelitchew's work around 1930. J. T. Soby wrote in Tchelitchew, New York, 1942, ‘He intended his second and subsequent images to merge with and into the basic form of the picture, never obtruding themselves or obliterating…the outlines and impact of the original theme’.