Russian artist, representative of surrealism, set designer. Born on the Dubrovka estate (Kaluga province) on September 21 (October 3), 1898 in the family of a landowner. In 1918 he left with his family for Kyiv, where he studied at the studio of A.A. Exter and the newly created Ukrainian Academy of Arts. He took part in the festive decoration of the city under the Bolsheviks, performed his first theatrical work (scenery and costumes for the operetta by Geisha S. Jones and I. Karil for the theater of K. A. Mardzhanov; 1919), and in the same year he served as a cartographer in the White Army. In 1920 he evacuated to Constantinople, lived briefly in Sofia, where he painted the cover of the first collection of Eurasianists (Exodus to the East, 1921). In Berlin he collaborated with the ballet “Russian Romantic Theater” by B. G. Romanov and other troupes (since 1921), then settled in Paris (1924). In 1934–1939 he lived in New York. Together with K. Berar and brothers E.G. and L.G. Bermanami formed a group of “neo-romantics” (since 1925), representing a moderate and seemingly more aesthetic wing of surrealism, which avoided social shocking in the spirit of A. Breton and his associates. He worked more and more for the theater, especially often designing productions by J. Balanchine: the ballets The Wanderer to the music of F. Schubert at the Theater des Champs-Élysées, 1933; Orpheus to the music of K.V. Gluck at the New York Metropolitan Opera, 1937; Apollo Musaget and Balustrade by I.F. Stravinsky at the Colon Theater (Buenos Aires, 1940), etc. The surreal color-light effects and anamorphoses (i.e., visual transformations of one image into another), characteristic of these performances, were simultaneously embodied in Chelishchev’s easel paintings and graphics, where occult-symbolic motifs occupied an important place alchemy and astrology. The results of his interwar searches were two large paintings: Phenomenon (Phenomenon, 1936–1938), which the master donated to the Tretyakov Gallery, and Hide and Seek (1940–1942, Museum of Modern Art, New York); in them the concept of an “inner landscape” was gradually formed, revealing itself through the outer surface of things - as if in “x-ray” artistic intuition. Returning to Europe, he lived in Italy (since 1949). In the later period, the anatomical and landscape motifs of his “internal landscapes” were increasingly replaced by abstract “cosmic” patterns.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – 1932. Technique – Ink, pen on paper.
Аукцион № 114 «Русское искусство ХХ века» 15 июня 2010 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – 1932. Technique – Watercolor on paper.
Chelishchev P.F. Size – 21.2x27.6. Technique – Paper, watercolor, ink.
Аукцион № 169 "Аукцион сезона" 14 декабря 2021 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – 1949 Size – 50x38. Technique – Paper, colored pencil.
Description:Signed and dated lower left.
Аукцион № 168 Аукцион №168 16 ноября 2021 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – 1952 Size – 65.1x50. Technique – Paper, colored pencils.
Description:Signed and dated lower right. The work is included in the catalog “Pavel Chelishchev”, published by A.E. Kuznetsov.
Аукцион № 167 "Аукцион сезона" 21 сентября 2021 г.
Description:The work is included in the catalog “Pavel Chelishchev”, published by A.E. Kuznetsov.
Аукцион № 143 "Русское искусство ХХ века". 22 октября 2015 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – Con. 1920s Size – 42x16. Technique – Paper, sepia, pen.
Аукцион № 125 "Русское и Западноевропейское искусство XIX-ХХ веков". 27 октября 2011 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – 1920-1930s Size – 46x27.5 Technique – Paper, graphite pencil, sepia, brush.
Аукцион №188 Аукцион 188 21 ноября 2024 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – 1949 Size – 60x40. Technique – Paper, colored pencils.
Аукцион № 142 "Русское и Западноевропейское искусство XIX-ХХ веков". 23 октября 2014 г.
Chelishchev P.F. Year – Beginning XX century Size – 21.2x27.6. Technique – Paper, watercolor, ink.
Аукцион № 116 «Русское и Западноевропейское искусство XVIII-ХХ веков» 02 ноября 2010 г.
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