NIKOLAI FECHIN | Portrait of a Young Girl

This work is in excellent condition. The canvas has an old glue lining. The stretcher is probably not original. The paint layer is clean and shows only a thin line of retouching at the top of the figure's arm in the lower center. There do not appear to be any other retouches. There seems to be an original artist's monogram in the upper left. There is a signature "N. Fechin" in the lower right, which fluoresces very strongly and does not look as if it were applied at the time that the work was painted. Nonetheless, the work is in beautiful condition and could be hung in its current state.
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