pavel tchelitchew

Alexander Kuznetsov
PAVEL TCHELITCHEW
Metamorphoses
336 pages, 23 x 29 cm, 370 illustrations
Hardback with dust jacket, decorative slip-case
Text in English | Summaries in German | Russian | French
€ 68 [D] | US$ 95 | £ 55
ISBN 978-3-89790-368-5
Dissolution of the Shell
Pavel Tchelitchew (1898–1957) is one of the most fascinating artist personalities of the modern era due to his comprehensive and complex oeuvre. After schooling in Moscow and
Kiev with Alexandra Exter, he successfully worked as a stage
designer in Berlin at the beginning of the 1920s, before
moving to Paris in 1923. At the time, Gertrude Stein and
later Edith Sitwell were among Tchelitchew’s illustrious patrons.
In Paris Tchelitchew was engaged with the same motifs as
many of his contemporaries: flowers, fruit, human models,
circus acrobats. He moved in the circles of the so-called
neo-Romantics and was therefore not only shaped by Surrealism but also by the turn-of-the-century Russian Symbolism, which he enhanced with his individually interpreted
Cubist elements. From 1936 to 1938, now in New York, his
first chief work Phenomena emerged, a Surrealist landscape
tableau with over a hundred overdrawn figures, viewed from
different perspectives – portraits of people who in some
way or another were connected to Tchelitchew’s life.
In his works of the late 1930s plant motifs with representations of children began to meld and flow into Tchelitchew’s
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probably most famous work, Hide and Seek (1940–42). Afterwards he dedicated himself to ‘inner landscapes’ – ‘Xrays’ of heads and bodies, permeated with glowing veins,
arteries and pathways of nerves. In the 1950s Tchelitchew
ultimately dissolved the human body into luminescent paths
of energy, which became ‘vibrant’, interpenetrating geometric masses (‘dancing boxes’) in his final period of creativity.
Tchelitchew constantly experimented with new styles in his
search for a language of form for his philosophic concepts
and a transcendental, cosmic order. The emerging comprehensive range of studies, drawings and paint-ings represents an outstanding contribution to art of the modern era.
It is appreciated in its entirety for the first time in this publication.
This groundbreaking monograph of the American painter
of Russian extraction Pavel Tchelitchew presents a comprehensive sample of his most significant paintings in
countless large-format illustrations over a total of 336 pages. Enhanced by a selection of drawings, stage sets and
costumes, the exciting oeuvre of this exceptionally individual artist can be experienced for the first time in its complete complexity and multiplicity.
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A groundbreaking monograph of the painter
Pavel Tchelitchew
Artist
Inhalt
Pavel Tchelitchew is represented in numerous public and
private collection, including
6 Pavel Tchelitchew – Metamorphoses
57 Pavel Tchelitchew – Oeuvre
282 Catalogue of illustrated works
304 307 310 Russian Summary
French Summary
German Summary
314 319 319 320 321 324 335 Pavel Tchelitchew: A Brief Biography
Museum and Public Collections
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected Bibliography
Thirty Significant Publications on Pavel Tchelitchew
Acknowledgements
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate collection, London
Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
The State Tretyakow Gallery, Moskow
Author
Alexander Evengenyevich Kuznetsov was born in 1965 in
Kazan in the former Soviet Union (today the Russian Federation). In 2000 he graduated in art history at the Russian
Academy of Arts (Ilya Repin Institute) in St Petersburg. The
author of numerous articles on Russian art history of the
late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth
century has worked together with galleries in St Petersburg
and Moscow since the late 1990s. Since 2006 he has
been particularly inter-ested in the Parisian neo-Romantics
Christian Bérard, Eugène Berman und Pavel Tchelitchew. In
2006 and 2011 Kuznetsov curated two major retrospectives on the artistic and graphic work of Pavel Tchelitchew
in the Kournikova Gallery in Moscow. He continues this
work in the form of a catalogue raisonné on Tchelitchew.
Kuznetsov is currently working on a monograph on Nikolai
Bogdanov-Belsky. Since April 2005 he has worked as an
expert in painting and drawing for MacDougall’s Fine Art
Auctions in London.
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Acrobat, 1927
Oil, coffee and sand on canvas, 91,5 x 73 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Young Boy with a White Collar, 1927
Oil on canvas, 92,5 x 61 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Girl with Butterflies, 1934
Oil on canvas, 92 x 65 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Pavel Tchelitchew
Blindfolded Girl, 1939
Gouache on paper, 65 x 50,5 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Pavel Tchelitchew
Anemones, 1932
Oil on canvas, 74,5 x 50 cm
Private Collection, London
Courtesy of Sotheby‘s, New York
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Pavel Tchelitchew
Leaf Children (study for the cover of Town & Country
Magazine), 1940
Gouache on paper, 40 x 30 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Pavel Tchelitchew
Composition with Maltese Cross, 1956
Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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La Noix, 1955
Gouache on paper, 40 x 30 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Pavel Tchelitchew
Little Red Riding Hood, 1940
Gouache on cardboard, 76,2 x 50,8 cm
Alexander Kuznetsov & Pavel Melyakov Collection,
St Petersburg
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Pavel Tchelitchew 1933/35
Archives and Special Collections,
Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
Courtesy of Dickinson College, Carlisle PA
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Portrait
Pavel Tchelitchew
Photograph by George Platt Lynes
Private Collection