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Pavel Tchelitchew (1898 — 1957)



Life Dates
Born 1898 , Russia
Died 1957

Selected Museum Collections

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, IL
Civic Art Gallery, Southampton, England
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Courtauld Institute, University of London, London, England
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Collection, MA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tate Gallery, London, England
Tretyakov Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, Hartford, CT


Solo Exhibitions

1923 Galerie Henri, Paris, France
1927 Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1928 Claridge Gallery, London, England
Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1929 Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1931 Galerie Vignon, Paris, France
1932 Esther Surrey Gallery, The Hague
1933 Salon d'Art Contemporain, Antwerp, Belgium
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, England
1934 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
1935 Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, England
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
1937 Smith College, Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
1938 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, IL
1939 Galerie de Quatre Chemins, Paris, France
Galerie Rene Drouin, Paris, France
1940 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie de Quatre Chemins, Paris, France
1942 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Retrospective)
Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
Durlacher Bros., New York, NY
1943 Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1945 Durlacher Bros., New York, NY
1948 Durlacher Bros., New York, NY
1949 Hanover Gallery, London, England
Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Brazil (Retrospective)
1950 Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, Italy
1951 John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Durlacher Bros., New York, NY
1952 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Worth Avenue Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1954 Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, Italy
Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Hanover Gallery, London, England
1955 Naviglio Gallery, Milan, Italy
Galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome, Italy
1956 Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, France
1964 Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY
1972 The Alpine Club organized by Richard Nathanson, London, England
1974 The Alpine Club organized by Richard Nathanson, London, England
1991 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, NY
1998 Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY
2002 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK

Group Exhibitions

1923 Galerie Flechtcheim, Berlin
1924 Galerie Henri, Paris, France
Redfern Gallery, London, England
1925 Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
Galerie Rene Drouin, Paris, France
Galerie Henri, Paris, France
1926 Neo-Romantics, Galerie Druet, Paris, France
1930 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1931 History of Landscape Painting, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Balzac Galleries, New York, NY
1932 Galerie Vignon, Paris, France
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1933 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1936 Paper Ball, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1940 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
Steuben Glass, Inc., New York, NY
1941 Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY
Courvoisier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1942 New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1944 Art and Progress,/I>, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Modern Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1945 European Artists in United States, Museum of Modern Art Circulating Exhibition, New York, NY
1947 Symbolism in Painting, Museum of Modern Art Circulating Exhibition, New York, NY
1950 Symbolic Realism in American Painting 1940 – 1950, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1958 A. Everett Austin, Jr.: A Director's Taste and Achievement, John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1974 Leonid and His Friends: Tchelitchew, Berman and Berard, New York Cultural Center, NY
1992 Art of the 1940s, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1994 Perceivable Realities, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Counterpoints: American Art, 1930-1945, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Exploring the Unknown: Surrealism in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Surrealism and American Art 1932-1949, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1998 The Surrealist Vision: Europe and The Americas, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, FL
Essence of the Orb, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Twentieth Century American Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2000 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
Surrealism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Private Realisms: American Paintings 1934-1949, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2003 The Art of Organic Forms, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2004Drawings Out of the Void: Hans Bellmer, Pavel Tchelitchew, Steve DiBenedetoo and Pieter Schoolwerth, Vestry Arts Inc., New York, NY
2005Eye Contact: Painting and Drawing in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
2006Picasso and The School of Paris, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2007 Body Beware: 18 American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2008-2010 American Artists from the Russian Empire, sponsored by The State Russian Museum and Foundation for International Arts and Education, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Fred Jones Jr. Museum, Norman, OK; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2009 Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Exhibitions
American Modernism on Paper
Body Beware: 18 American Artists
Counterpoints: American Art, 1930-1945
Essence of the Orb
Exploring the Unknown: Surrealism in American Art
Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art
Flora: In Reverence of Nature
On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art
Organic New York, 1941-1949
Pavel Tchelitchew: Nature Transformed
Pavel Tchelitchew: Nature Within & Without
Perceivable Realities
Sensual Lines: American Figurative Drawings
Surrealism and Magic Realism in American Art
Surrealism Embodied: The Figure in American Art, 1933-1953
The 1940s: Modern American Art & Design
The Art of Organic Forms