Portrait of Patricia Lopez-Wilshaw

細節

Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)
Portrait of Patricia Lopez-Wilshaw
signed and dated 'P.Tchelitchew 41' (lower right)
oil on board
23 x 19¾ in. (58.5 x 49 cm.)
Painted in 1941

來源

Edward James, West Dean Park, West Sussex; his sale, Christie's, London, June 1986, lot 1727.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

注意事項

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拍場告示

Please note the dimensions of this work are 24 x 20 in. (61.1 x 50.7 cm.) and not as stated in the catalogue.
Please also note that this painting was on loan from Edward James to the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1942 (loan no. 42.1188).

拍品專文

The present portrait is stylistically related to Tchelitchew's monumental masterpiece, and perhaps one of his most celebrated works, Hide-and-Seek, 1940-1942, in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The sitter is Patricia Lopez-Wilshaw a well-known Parisian socialite and a great friend of the surrealist patron Marie-Laure de Noailles. Patricia was married to her cousin, the Chilean businessman Arturo Lopez-Wilshaw, the benefactor and lover of Baron Alexis de Rede, and was the great niece of Madame Eugenia Errazuriz, perhaps the greatest patron of modernism of the twentieth century. Like her great aunt, Patricia Lopez-Wilshaw was a considerable force in the fashion world, particularly during the late 1930s.