Nicolai Ivanovich Fechine original oil on wood 24 x 19 cm image size Comes framed with provenance from private collection It is sold as Attributed, it needs to be restored, this work of art is a jewel as an investment! Provenance: (Private Collection and available upon request.) The painting was analyzed with ultraviolet rays and shows no alterations in the area of the signature and in its pictorial layer in general.There are several points and details to restore.Biography:Nikolai Fechine (Russian: ??????? ???????? ?????), born November 26, 1881 (December 8, 1881 in the Gregorian calendar) in Kazan, Russian Empire and died October 5, 1955 in Santa Monica, California, USA ., is a Russian painter, graphic artist, sculptor, engraver, nationalized Soviet and later American. He is a representative, through his painting, of Impressionism and Art Nouveau.He entered the Kazan School of Fine Arts at age 13, then continued his training in Saint Petersburg, where he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he trained in the studio of Ilia Repin. After his studies, he returned to Kazan where he taught at the School of Fine Arts that today bears his name: Kazan N. Fechine (ru) School of Fine Arts. In 1916, he was appointed an academician at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg.At age 42, in 1923, Fechine emigrated to the United States with her family, where she lived until her death at age 73, in 1955. In 1976, her daughter Iya Fechina (ru) (1914-2002), a dancer and critic of art, he moved his father's ashes from California to Kazan. Fechin was known in Russia and the USSR, but in the United States he is considered an American artist. He has created more than 2,000 works that can be found in more than thirty museums in the United States, not counting private collections. The largest collection of his works is in the Tatarstan Museum of Figurative Arts (ru) (more precisely on display in the museum's branch - the Khazine Art Gallery in the Kazan Kremlin). His paintings are also presented in the museums of Saint Petersburg, Cheboksary, Kozmodemiansk, Kirov and in private collections.

This is in good condition Provenance available upon request. Private Collection.