Tchelitchew, Pavel (1898 - 1957)

The Mask of Light    gouache on paper, 1934 signed and dated '34 upper right recto paper size 25 3/8" x 19 5/8" (64.5 x 50 cm.) Provenance:  Dr. Robert H. Alexander, New York Exhibited:  Tchelitchew Paintings Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 1942 - January 1943, catalog no. 39 Literature:  James Thrall Soby, Tchelitchew Paintings Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1942, p. 43, catalog no. 39 To the latter part of 1933 belong three portraits of the African dancer, Feral Benga, among them The Mask of Light....     -James Thrall Soby, Tchelitchew Paintings Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1942 signature detail

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