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1898-1957
NUDE IN SPACE

NUDE IN SPACE

measurements
39 1/2 by 31 7/16 in.

alternate measurements
100.3 by 79.9 cm

oil and coffee grounds on canvas laid down on board

PROVENANCE

Marcel Kanne, Paris
A. Alvarez, Buenos Aires

EXHIBITED

Buenos Aires, Instituto de Arte Moderno, Pavel Tchelitchew, Pinturas y Dibujos, August 1949, no. 3
New York, Midtown Payson Galleries, Pavel Tchelitchew, A Reevaluation, September 21 to November 5, 1994

NOTE

Executed in 1926, this work is an example of Tchelitchew's experimentation with what he labeled 'laconic' composition: capturing "simultineity" or the expression of movement through time and space, concerns similar to cubism, but more closely tied to figural depiction. The medium of sand, coffee-grounds and paint was used in a majority of Tchelitchew's paintings of this period, particularly in 1927-28. "At times...he piled up so heavy a texture that, in [Tchelitchew's] words, 'The surface of my paintings looked like maps of earth in low relief.'" (James Thrall Soby, Tchelitchew,: Paintings, Drawings, 1942, p. 17).