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TCHELICHEV, PAVEL. 1898-1957. Costume design for Dominico Savonarolla, watercolor and goauche on card,
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TCHELICHEV, PAVEL. 1898-1957.
Costume design for Dominico Savonarolla, watercolor and goauche on card, 510 x 360 mm, Berlin, 1923, signed, titled and inscribed "Berlin" (lower right), further inscribed "Dominico / 76 Berlin" (upper right), some surface stains and pin pricks in corners.
Russian-born Pavel Tchelitchew was an enormously versatile artist who is today remembered primarily for his theater work. Having studied with the Cubo-Futurist painter Alexandra Exter in Kiev, he emigrated to the West in 1920 and eventually came to Berlin. Despite the thriving Russian émigré community there, Tchelitchew was one of the few Russian artists at the time who collaborated with German directors. His simple, dynamic designs for the story of the great Italian Renaissance religious reformer were in the Cubist tradition rather than in his more ornate "Neo-romantic" and subsequent Surrealist manner of the 1930s and later. During his American period, he worked with Balanchine and his American Ballet Theater and painted Lincoln Kirstein's portrait.
Russian-born Pavel Tchelitchew was an enormously versatile artist who is today remembered primarily for his theater work. Having studied with the Cubo-Futurist painter Alexandra Exter in Kiev, he emigrated to the West in 1920 and eventually came to Berlin. Despite the thriving Russian émigré community there, Tchelitchew was one of the few Russian artists at the time who collaborated with German directors. His simple, dynamic designs for the story of the great Italian Renaissance religious reformer were in the Cubist tradition rather than in his more ornate "Neo-romantic" and subsequent Surrealist manner of the 1930s and later. During his American period, he worked with Balanchine and his American Ballet Theater and painted Lincoln Kirstein's portrait.