Lot 201
  • 201

Nicolai Fechin 1881-1955

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Nicolai Fechin
  • Self-Portrait
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 20 1/4 in.
  • (61 by 51.4 cm)
  • Painted after 1948.

Provenance

The Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, Jackson, Wyoming
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Acquired from the above

 

Exhibited

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gilcrease Museum, The Works of Nicolai Fechin, February 1986
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Fechin Retrospective, September-November 1991

Literature

Persimmon Hill, Vol 8, no. 3, 1978, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, illustrated in color pp. 11, 40
Gilcrease Magazine of American History and Art, vol. 8, no. 1, January 1986, Tulsa, Oklahoma, p. 32, illustrated p. 30

Condition

Very good condition, unlined; under UV: fine.
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