1. Pavel Tchelitchew's family was forced to flee Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
12 Facts About Pavel Tchelitchew
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Pavel Tchelitchew studied under Aleksandra Ekster at the Kiev Academy, and after graduation worked designing and building theater sets in Odessa and later Berlin from 1920 to 1923.
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Pavel Tchelitchew moved to Paris in 1923 and became acquainted with Gertrude Stein and, through her, the Sitwell and Gorer families.
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Pavel Tchelitchew's early painting was abstract in style, described as constructivist and futurist and influenced by his study with Aleksandra Ekster.
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Pavel Tchelitchew continuously experimented with new styles, eventually incorporating multiple perspectives and elements of surrealism and fantasy into his painting.
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Pavel Tchelitchew designed sets for Ode, L'Errante, Nobilissima Visione and Ondine.
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Pavel Tchelitchew was known for camouflaging bodies and faces into geometric lines or landscaped forms on artwork.
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Pavel Tchelitchew used abstractionism and symbolism to convey both the outer and inner appearance of the object.
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Pavel Tchelitchew became a United States citizen in 1952, but lived mainly in Italy from 1949.
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Pavel Tchelitchew met the American pianist Allen Tanner in Berlin in the 1920s and the two men became lovers, moving to Paris together to pursue their artistic careers.
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Ford and Pavel Tchelitchew had met shortly after Ford's arrival in Paris in 1933 to publish The Young and Evil.
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Pavel Tchelitchew's body is interred in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.