LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

55.91 in. (142.00 cm.) (height) by 35.43 in. (90.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic t.l.

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition, 2 May - 30 June 1910, no.81. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Founder's Day Exhibition. The Private Collection of Mr W.S. Stimmel, 25 April - 25 June 1918, no.18. Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum,. Exhibition of Russian Painting and Sculpture , 1923, no.77. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago,. Special Exhibition Paintings by Nikolai Fechin , 18 December 1923 - 20 January 1924, no.7. New York, Arden Gallery,. Paintings by Nicolai Fechin, 29 January - 20 February 1924, no.3. Boston, Robert C.Vose Galleries,. Exhibition of the Latest Works of Nicolai Fechin, 21 January - 6 February 1926, no.9. Seattle, Frye Art Museum,. Nicolai Fechin, 26 March - 9 May 1976. Montana, Montana Historical Society, . A Centennial Exhibition, 15 June - 16 August 1981. Oklahoma City, National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center,. Fechin Retrospective , 13 September - 17 November 1991. Seattle, Frye Art Museum,. Nicolai Fechin , 2 February - 19 May 2013

Literature:

Catalogue of the Fourteenth Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1910, no.81 illustrated b/w; listed as Portrait of Mlle. Lapojnikoff 'International Exhibition at Pittsburgh', American Art News, vol.VIII, 7 May 1910, mentioned in review. 'Our International Exhibition of Painting', The Craftsman, 7 July 1910, vol. XVIII, no.4 illustrated b/w on frontispiece; p.426 listed. 'Pittsburgh', American Art News, vol. VIII, no.33, 16 July 1910, mentioned in review. Catalogue of Founder's Day Exhibition. The Private Collection of Mr W.S. Stimmel, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1918, illustrated b/w; no.18 listed as Portrait of Mlle. Lapojnikoff. Estate sale catalogue. The Notable Art Collection formed by the Late George A. Hearn. Merchant, Art Patron and Benefactor of New York City etc., New York: American Art Galleries, 1918, no.168 listed and illustrated b/w. P.M. Dulsky, Nikolai Ivanovich Fechin, Kazan: Gosizdat, 1921, p.16 illustrated b/w. Exhibition catalogue. Exhibition of Russian Painting and Sculpture, New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1923, illustrated b/w; no.77 listed as. Mademoiselle Lapojnikov. Exhibition catalogue. Special Exhibition Paintings by Nikolai Fechin, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1924, illustrated b/w; no.7 listed. Exhibition catalogue. Paintings by Nicolai Fechin, New York: Arden Gallery, 1924, no.3 illustrated. J.Jellico, 'Nicolai Fechin', Artists of the Rockies and the Golden West, Summer 1981, p.74 illustrated. M.Balcomb, Nicolai Fechin. San Cristobal: Fechin Art Reproductions, 1999, p.13, fig.13 illustrated. D.S. Atkinson, San Diego Museum of Art: Selected Works, San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2003, p.178, fig.178 illustrated. G.Tuluzakova, . Nikolai Fechin, St Petersburg: Zolotoi vek, 2010, pl.16 illustrated; p.473 listed. G.Tuluzakova and D.Porter,. Nicolai Fechin: 1881-1955 , St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2011, p.53. G.Tuluzakova,. Nicolai Fechin. The Art and the Life, San Cristobal: Fechin Art Reproductions, 2012, p.162 illustrated. J-A.B. Danzker,. Nicolai Fechin , Seattle: Frye Art Museum, 2013, pp.12-13. G.Tuluzakova, . Nicolai Fechin, London: Unicorn Press Ltd, 2013, pp.36-37, no.36

Provenance:

The artist. George A. Hearn (1835-1913), New York, acquired at the Carnegie exhibition in 1910. The Notable Art Collection Formed by the Late George A. Hearn, 26 February 1918, lot 168. William S. Stimmel, Pittsburgh, acquired for $1,325 at the above sale. Mrs John Burnham (Catherine Wheeler Burnham), Rancho Santa Fe, California, until 1964. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California