Untitled
1953 · Colored pencil on colored paper
18 7/8 x 13" (47.9 x 33.0 cm
Museum of Modern Art
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Pavel Tchelitchew
Russian-American, 1898
Kaluga, Russia
PrintmakingFuturismCubismSurrealism
Representation
None documented
59
Institutional Exhibitions
198
Works in Collection
365
Assets Indexed
4
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Futurism
- • Cubism
- • Surrealism
- • Expressionism
- • Performance Art
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Painters for the Theater
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988–1989
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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Gifts of Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
About
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Pavel Tchelitchew was an American painter and stage designer born in Russia who worked across figurative painting, theatrical design, and set decoration. His canvases combined surrealist and expressionist vocabularies with classical figuration, often depicting elongated human forms and dreamlike interiors. Active in New York and Europe through the mid-twentieth century, he created both easel works and large-scale designs for ballet and opera productions. His practice bridged fine art and performance, with particular attention to formal distortion and psychological intensity.
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