LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.51 in. (90.20 cm.) (height) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic and dated 'N. Feshin/1912.' (upper left)

Exhibited:

Moscow, 41 vystavka kartin Tovarishchestva Peredvizhnykh Khudozhestvennykh Vystavok [41st Exhibition of paintings of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions], 1912, no. 262.Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, April 24–June 30, 1913 no. 87.Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, on extended loan 1914-1919, inventory no. L14.207 (partial label on the backboard).Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Inaugural Exhibition, January-February 1915, no. 182.Seattle, Frye Art Museum, Nicolai Fechin, February 9-May 19, 2013.

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Katalog XLI-i Peredvizhnoi Vystavki Kartin [Catalogue of the XlI Itinerant Exhibition of Paintings], Moscow, 1913, no. 262. Exhibition catalogue, The Catalogue of the Seventeenth Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1913, no. 87.'Works sold at Pittsburg', American Art News, Vol. 11 no. 35, 19 July 1913, p. 7.Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, Minneapolis, 1915, no. 182, p. 37.P. Dulsky, N. Feshin, Kazan, 1921, pp. 17 and 30.G. Burova and O. Rumiantseva, Tovarishchestvo Peredvizhnykh Khudozhestvennykh Vystavok [Exhibitions of the Society of Itinerant Artists], Moscow, 1952, vol. I, p. 363. S. Kaplanova, Ocherki po istorii russkogo portreta kontsa XIX-nachala [Observations on the history of the Russian Portrait at the end of the 19th/start of the 20th century], Moscow, 1964, p. 455. E. Kluchevskaya and V. Tsoy, N. Feshin. Katalog proizvedeniy do 1923 goda [Catalogue of works prior to 1923], Kazan, 1992, listed p. 49, no. 28.G. Romanov, Tovarishchestvo Peredvizhnykh Khudozhestvennykj Vystavok [Exhibitions of the Society of Itinerant Artists] 1871-1923, St Petersburg, 2003, listed p. 211, no. 3-144.G. Tuluzakova, Nikolay Feshin, St. Petersburg, 2007, no. 29, listed p. 474.G. Tuluzakova, Nicolai Fechin, the art and the life, San Cristobal, 2012, p. 59, illustrated p. 191.Exhibition catalogue, Nicolai Fechin, Seattle, 2013, pp. 18-19, illustrated p. 30.G. Toulouzakova, Nicolai Fechin, London, 2013, p. 96, illustrated p. [97]. G. Tuluzakova, Fechin, London, 2014, illustrated p. 97.

Provenance:

Mrs Charles Cranston Bovey, Minneapolis (1874-1964).Mitchell Brown Fine Art, Inc., Santa Fe (label on the backboard).Acquired from the above by Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe circa 2000 (label on the backboard).The Dr and Mrs Charles R. Briggs Collection.