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NICOLAI FECHIN (1881 - 1955)
Old Man
Bronze # 5/35, 10 ½"H x 4 3/4"W x 5"D
inscribed, copyright by Paul Masa
Nicolai Fechin was born in the village of Kazan, Russia. At the age of thirteen, Fechin was ready to begin his life's
work. The Art School of Kazan, a branch of the celebrated Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, had just opened, and
the promising young youth received a six-year scholarship. His work first appeared in America at the International
Exhibit of the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. In both Western Europe and America, Fechin was greeted with instant
acclaim. Among such distinguished contemporaries as Monet, Pisarro, Latouche, Sisley and Sargeant, he won his first
prizes and medals. In 1923, with his wife and daughter, he came to the U. S. to settle in New York, but not for long.
He moved his family to Taos, NM, where a small community of artists also made their home. There he purchased a
house in the middle of seven acres adjoining the Indian reservation. Fechin took great delight in the abundance of the
subject matter the Taos area provided him. He worked in bright hues to paint the native people. He traveled to Mexico
to sketch in charcoal, pencil, and pastel the many faces of its people. The sketches reveal the superb draftsmanship
underlying all his work. He died at his home in Santa Monica, CA, in 1955.
Literature:
This is a little, unfinished head which could be a preliminary study of a head of Fechin's father
or of Tolstoy. It was made while living in Toas, New Mexico, 1927-33. My mother kept it and
either sold it or gave it to Stan Aiello of Toas. When Stan died, it found its way to Forrest Fenn,
dealer in Santa Fe. Fenn sold it to Paul Masa.
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