Still Life, Clown

1. The artist, Paris and later New York; James Thrall Soby (1906–1979), New York, probably acquired directly from the artist, by 1942 [correspondence with The Museum of Modern Art, Jan. 27, 2025, copy in curatorial object file]. Durlacher Brothers, New York, by 1965; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Metamorphoses by Pavel Tchelitchew, Apr. 21–May 18, 1942, no cat. no.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tchelitchew: Paintings, Drawings, Oct. 28–Nov. 29, 1942, cat. 26.
• New York, Durlacher Brothers, Tchelitchew, 1925-1933, Jan. 5 – Jan. 31, 1948, cat. 10.
• Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, Reality and Fantasy, 1900-1954, May 23 – Jul. 2, 1954, cat. 166.
• New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Pavel Tchelitchew, Mar. 20 – Apr. 9, 1964, cat. 80.
• Chicago, Wrightwood 659, The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939, May 2-July 26, 2025, no cat. no.

• James Thrall Soby, “Return to the North,” in Julien Levy Gallery, Metamorphoses by Pavel Tchelitchew, exh. brochure (Apr. 21–May 18, 1942), n.p., no cat. no. (ill.), as Human Still Life.
• James Thrall Soby, ed., Tchelitchew: Paintings, Drawings, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), cat. 26, 21, 51 (ill.), as Still-life Clown.
• Durlacher Brothers, Tchelitchew, 1925-1933, exh. brochure, (Jan. 1948), cat. 10, as Still-Life, Clown (not ill.).
• H. H. Arnason, “Minneapolis,” in Art Digest, Vol. 28, No. 18 (July 1954), 18 (not ill.).
• Parker Tyler, The Divine Comedy of Pavel Tchelitchew (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967), 324 (ill.), as Still Life Clown.
• New York, Gallery of Modern Art, Pavel Tchelitchew, Mar. 20 – Apr. 9, 1964, 59, cat. 80 (not ill.).
• H. H. Arnason, ed., Reality and Fantasy, 1900–1954, exh. cat. (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: 1954), inside cover, cat. 166, as Still-Life Clown (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1964–1965, 26 (ill.), 29.
• Joanathan D. Katz, ed., with Johnny Willis, The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939, exh. cat. (Chicago: Wrightwood 659 and New York: Monacelli Press, 2025), 77 (color ill.).

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