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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.166
People
Pavel Tchelitchew, American (Kaluga district, Russia 1898 - 1957 Grotta Ferrata, Italy)
Title
Nicolas Kopeikine
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1937
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silverpoint and graphite on white prepared paper
Dimensions
50.9 x 33 cm (20 1/16 x 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: silverpoint, lower center: P. Tchelitchew '37
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: [underlined} 300

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Durlacher Brothers, New York, New York], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1943, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.166
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet is ragged at right edge as if torn from a larger sheet?

Publication History

  • Monroe Wheeler, ed., Modern Drawings, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1944), p. 98; repr. p. 85
  • Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 202
  • James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pp. 8 and 10; repr. p. 9
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 72, repr.
  • Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Drawing with Pencils, History and Modern Techniques, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. (New York, NY, 1970), repr. p. 10
  • Lincoln Kirstein, Pavel Tchelitchew Drawings, Hacker Art Books (New York, NY, 1970), no. 32, repr.
  • Douglas Dreishpoon, "The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver", Arts Magazine (September 1985)
  • Bruce Weber, The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, exh. cat., R. W. Norton Gallery (West Palm Beach, FL, 1985), no. 74, p. 101, repr.
  • Bruce Weber, "Silverpoint Drawing", American Artist (March 1986), vol. L, no. 524, repr. p. 36

Exhibition History

  • Modern Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 02/15/1944 - 04/16/1944
  • Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 12/07/1985 - 01/19/1986

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