PAVEL TCHELITCHEW (Russian, 1898-1957)

Study of a Man in Profile
ink wash on paper
h. 19-1/2 w. 17 in.
overall: 28-1/4 x 26 in. (frame)
unsigned
Provenance: Midtown Payson Galleries, New York (label on verso);
Sotheby’s, New York, The Collection of Geoffrey Beene, September 23-24, 2005, lot 251;
The estate of J.D. McClatchy (1945-2018), American poet, librettist, literary critic, and former president of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY