
AUCTION 2021, LOT 306
Nicolai Fechin
Man with Crooked Nose
Charcoal
17 x 13 inches
ESTIMATE: $6,000 - $9,000
Sold for $ 14,040
Nicolai Fechin was born in Russia’s rugged Tartar forest in 1881 where his father was a noted woodcarver and maker of icons. At 13, Fechin began his training at the Art School of Kazan, studied in St. Petersburg, and ultimately earned a six-year scholarship to the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. Fechin began to work with a palette knife and experiment with color application in a broadly impressionistic way. His paintings soon came to the attention of prominent American institutions and collectors; these connections helped him elude the hardest of the many hardships of the Bolshevik Revolution after he returned to the new Soviet Union. In 1923, Fechin and his wife left the U.S.S.R. and moved to New York. When Fechin developed tuberculosis, a doctor suggested he move to the Southwest for his health. One of Fechin’s friends, the artist John Young-Hunter, mentioned Taos. Fechin took his advice and found the countryside not only healthful but reminiscent of the woods and mountains of his youth.
AUCTION 2021, LOT 306
Charcoal
17 x 13 inches
ESTIMATE: $6,000 - $9,000
Sold for $ 14,040
AUCTION 2021, LOT 307
Charcoal
17 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
ESTIMATE: $6,000 - $9,000
Sold for $ 9,360
AUCTION 2021, LOT 308
Charcoal
15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
ESTIMATE: $6,000 - $9,000
Sold for $ 6,435
AUCTION 2021, LOT 309
Charcoal
13 x 16 inches
ESTIMATE: $6,000 - $9,000
Sold for $ 11,115
AUCTION 2019, LOT 223
Oil on canvas
19 x 31 inches
ESTIMATE: $ 200,000 - $ 300,000