Editing Pavel Tchelitchew (section)

== Personal life ==
Tchelitchew became a [[Citizenship in the United States|United States citizen]] in 1952, but lived mainly in Italy from 1949.<ref name=":0" />

Tchelitchew was openly homosexual.<ref name="Gibson" /> He met the American pianist Allen Tanner in Berlin in the 1920s and the two men became lovers, moving to Paris together to pursue their artistic careers.<ref name="Dickinson">{{Cite archival metadata
|author = Collection register authors: Christy Fic, Lily Key, Stephanie McGucken, Dan
Plekhov, and Malinda Triller Doran
|title = Allen C. Tanner Papers
|url = http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/allen-c-tanner-papers
|repository = Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
|location = Carlisle, PA
|date = 2018
|accessdate = November 11, 2020
}}</ref> In 1934, he left Tanner for the poet [[Charles Henri Ford]]. Ford and Tchelitchew had met shortly after Ford's arrival in Paris in 1933 to publish ''The Young and Evil''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Pavel Tchelitchew - EXCELSIOR|url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/russian-pictures-l18112/lot.74.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111145828/https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/russian-pictures-l18112/lot.74.html|archive-date=2020-11-11|access-date=2020-11-11|website=[[Sotheby's]]}}</ref>