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-SeekĀa 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.
Some of 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...
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