Lot 92
  • 92

Pavel Tchelitchew

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pavel Tchelitchew
  • Nude Boy from Behind
  • signed in Latin and dated 1936 l.r.; further bearing a label on the backing board 
  • silverpoint on paper
  • sheet size: 51 by 33cm, 20 by 13in.

Provenance

Edward James, West Dean
Christie's West Dean, The Edward James collects ion, West Dean Park, 5 June 1986, lot 1672
Acquired by Robert L.B. Tobin (1934-2000), San Antonio, Texas
Tobin Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Catalogue Note

The present work comes from the collects ion of Robert L.B. Tobin, a prominent theatre art collects or and benefactor of the Metropolitan Opera and Museum of Modern Art in New York. A resident of San Antonio, Tobin was closely associated with the McNay Art Museum to which he bequeathed his Russian theatre design collects ion which included important cost.mes and set designs by Natalia Goncharova and Léon Bakst.