Pavel Tchelitchew (1898–1957) was a Russian-born surrealist
painter, set designer and costume designer. Tchelitchew was born to an
aristocratic family of landowners and was educated by private tutors.
He left Russia in 1920, lived in Berlin from 1921 to 1923,
and moved to Paris in 1923. His first U.S. show was of his drawings, along with
other artists, at the newly opened Museum of Modern Art in 1930. In 1934, he
moved from Paris to New York City with his partner, writer Charles Henri Ford.
From 1940 to 1947, he provided illustrations for the Surrealist magazine View,
edited by Ford and writer and film critic Parker Tyler.
His most significant work is the painting Hide and Seek,
painted in 1940–42, and currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York
City. He became a US citizen in 1952 and died in Grottaferrata, Italy in 1957.
He is interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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