
The Sleep of Reason Part II: A Private Collection of Surrealist Art Online
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November 18, 07:08 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW (1898 - 1957)
SURVIVORS ON THE ROCKS (STUDY FOR "PHENOMENA")
Signed P Tchelitchew and dated 35 (upper left)
Gouache, watercolor, pastel and pen and ink on paper mounted on board
20 by 14 in. (50.8 by 35.6 cm)
Framed: 29 by 23 in. (73.7 by 58.4 cm)
Executed in 1935.
Private Collection, New York (and sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, February 23, 2005, lot 75)
Gallery of Surrealism, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in March 2005
New York, Gallery of Surrealism, Eugene Berman—Pavel Tchelitchew, Neo-Romantic Master Works from the 1930s & 1940s, 2005, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue