Beschreibung:

Pavel Tchelitchew (Russian/American, 1898-1957) The Kiss Signed and dated "P. Tchelitchew 1941" l.l. Black India ink on paper, sheet size 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm), framed. Condition: Toning, cloth tape hinge residue to the reverse, mat burn. Provenance: Durlacher Brothers, New York; private New Hampshire collection. Literature: Lincoln Kirstein, ed., Pavel Tchelitchew Drawings (H. Bittner and Company, 1947), P. 20, 39 (illus.). N.B. We wish to thank Erik La Prade for his kind assistance cataloging the lot. The Kiss was "drawn, September 1941, at Derby Hill, Vermont, immediately preceding the series of metamorphic landscapes (nos. 40 and 41). Tchelitchew drew these studies after having heard poems of Baudelaire read aloud. They were not intended either as illustration, or as preparation for a picture, and are quite disassociated from drawings in the series that came before and after." (1) 1. Kirstein, 20.