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GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. The elegant white marble museum opens with the pallid permanent collection of Museum Founder Huntington Hartford and a large exhibition (300 works) of the late Russian-born painter, Pavel Tchelitchew (see ART). Through April...
...Pavel Tchelitchew (pronounced Chell-e-shetf) has painted some strange and wonderful things in his 52 years. Most famous among them have been his bloody, surrealistic congress of freaks called Phenomena and Hide-and-Seek-a vast, autumnal tree with embryos and sick-looking children half hidden among its leaves (TIME, Nov. 9, 1912). Last week Tchelitchew jolted Manhattan's syth Street once more with an exhibition of 50-odd transparent heads...
...them were the sort he has been working on for years: textbook-like studies of nerves, bones and blood vessels Others, more recent, turned heads into wire latticework. Done in colored pencil on dark paper, they achieved effects of transparency, roundness and motion in neat, linear arabesques. To Tchelitchew they were not just plays in a clever game but 'work, work, work...
Reviewing Tchelitchew's new show, one critic brashly suggested that the artist had begun painting transparent heads because of a nervous breakdown, and congratulated him for having learned "to look at nerves, not as a patient, but as an artist." Nonsense, says Tchelitchew. "My nerves are very strong, though I don't know why for I was treated all my life rather badly, by critics especially. My crise de nerfs were microscopical tropical leeches that were exactly eating me to pieces...
Wrote Critic Eric Newton: "These American pictures catch the eye in a flash, but they are empty." Said the Sunday Observer: "This term 'symbolic realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again...