Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955)

Portrait of a Man

Details

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

来源

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).

拍品专文

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."