Live Auction 1869California, Western and American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955)
Lot 58

Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955)

Portrait of a Man

Closed24 October 2007

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USD 145,000

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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.

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

Specialist note

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."