Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955)

Portrait of a Man

Details

Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955)
Portrait of a Man
signed 'N. Fechin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19 x 15¼ in. (48.3 x 38.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1930s.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Fritz B. Burns, Los Angeles, California, circa 1940s.
By descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Taos, New Mexico, The Fechin Institute, Tenth Annual Exhibition, 1990 (as Mexican Man).

Lot Essay

According to Eya Fechin in a letter dated 30 October 1986, the present work may depict either a gentleman from Taos, New Mexico, or a family friend's gardener in California, "whose face my father liked very much and made several studies of."