Lot 209
  • 209

Nicolai Fechin

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Nicolai Fechin
  • Fechin's Wife
  • Signed with the artist's intials N.F. (lower right)
  • Pencil and charcoal on handmade paper
  • 17 by 12 1/2 in.
  • 43.2 by 31.8 cm

Provenance

Gifted by the artist to David Burliuk
Thence by descent

Condition

Sheet is laid down on back mat and sandwiched between the front and back mat, so edges are not visible. Rippling and creases to sheet. Sheet is a speckled brown and discolored. Pinholes at upper right corner. A few possible scattered small filled holes.
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