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Holding the first of what it calls Twilight Previews (6 to 8 p.m.), Manhattan's streamlined Museum of Modern Art last week devoted two-thirds of its largest gallery space to Painter Pavel Tchelitchew. The 214 exhibits, hung against a color scheme (each wall a different shade) devised by the artist, formed the biggest retrospective Tchelitchew show ever assembled. The remaining rooms displayed 43 carvings, 25 drawings by American Sculptor John B. Flannagan, who died by suicide last January...
This monumental exhibition represented 17 years of Painter Tchelitchew's work. Chief target of ahs and bahs was the artist's most recent work a 78½ ft.-by-84¾ ft. canvas entitled Hide-and-Seek. Some spectators thought it looked like a gigantic omelet composed, not of eggs, but of innumerable infants. Others thought the picture looked like a vast translucent cranium containing a number of babies enveloped in autumn leaves, some of the children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating. Persistent spectators sooner or later discovered that Hide...
...over a dinner table whose steady boarders were Auden, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (now back in England for military service), British Composer Benjamin Britten, Wisconsin-raised George Davis (literary editor of Harper's Bazaar). The old brownstone became a shabby Mecca for their friends. Russian Painter Pavel Tchelitchew decorated its walls, symphonies were composed at its piano, through it trooped painters, writers, musicians and such unclassifiable artists as Gypsy Rose...
...suave as O'Keeffe but not so austere were the portraits by Russian Pavel Tchelitchew in the swank, palette-shaped Julien Levy Gallery. A studious but fashionable virtuoso, Painter Tchelitchew showed Manhattanites a notable grab bag of tricks, from Byzantine golden backgrounds to the academic delicacies of silverpoint...