Russian artist Nicolai Fechin was born in Kazan, Russia, in 1881 and today is particularly known for his paintings of the New Mexico landscape and Native American portraits. After graduating from the ...

Installed throughout the house, Zimmerman’s richly colored archival pigment prints hang in close proximity to Fechin’s paintings and to the very objects depicted in the photographs ...

The sketches illustrate overlapping planes ... as one might see in a landscape by Nicholai Fechin, with its dynamic brushstrokes. "The Rock Inlet" from 1963 is an equally dynamic seascape ...

According to the auction house, the portrait is one of Fechin’s masterpieces he painted during the Kazan period, with its other paintings are still stored in private collections. The portrait is ...