"Tchelitchew Drawings" 1947 KIRSTEIN, Lincoln

KIRSTEIN, Lincoln 48 plates, [24] pp. of text1947 12" x 9 1/4" Inscribed to Dear Alvin The best wishes for everything - Pavel Dec. 1941 N.Y.C.H. Bittner & Company Scroll Down for (17) Additional Scans:Pavel Fyodorovich Tchelitchew (3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1898, Dubrovka village, near Kaluga – 31 July 1957, Grottaferrata, near Rome) was a Russian-born surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer.Early lifeTchelitchew was born to an aristocratic family of landowners and was educated by private tutors. Tchelitchew expressed an early interest in ballet and art. His family was forced to flee Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. He studied under Aleksandra Ekster at the Kiev Academy, and after graduation worked designing and building theater sets in Odessa and later Berlin from 1920-1923.CareerTchelitchew moved to Paris in 1923 and became acquainted with Gertrude Stein and, through her, the Sitwell and Gorer families. His interest in creating multimedia experienc