About This Artwork

Pavel Tchelitchew
American, born Russia, 1898-1957

Gertrude Stein, 1930

Brush and black ink on cream wove paper
428 x 288 mm
Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, 1947.792

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 165, pl. LIII.

New York, Gallery of Modern Art, “Pavel Tchelitchew,” 1964, cat. 75.

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Drawings 1916-1966,” 1966, cat. 106.

San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, "The Steins Collect: Matisse,Picasso, and the Parisian Avent-Garde, May 21 - September 6, 2011; traveled to Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, October 3, 2011 - January 16, 2012; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 21 - June 3 2012

Publication History

Alfred Frankfurter, “Il bon disegno from Chicago,” Art News, 62 (November 1963), p. 30 (ill.).

Ownership History

Given by Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1947.