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NICOLAI FECHIN, 1927 - Ballerina Vera Fokina / oil on canvas, approx. 152.0 × 122.0 cm

НИКОЛАЙ ФЕШИН - Портрет балерины Веры Фокиной

Location: Baylor University's Martin Museum of Art, Waco, Texas USA

 

Sources: www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&... www.baylor.edu/MEDIACOMMUNICATIONS/news.php?action=story&...

 

Tuluzakova, Galina P.: "Nicolai Fechin and Russian emigrants in New York", Sztuka Europy Wschodniej - Искусство Bосточной Европы - Art of Eastern, Europe 3, 2015, 333-338

 

One of Feshin's favorite models Vera Fokina became in New York.

The famous Russian ballerina, star of the Mariinsky Theater,

member of the Diaghilev troupe, Vera and her husband Mikhail Fokin settled in the USA in 1919 year, in 1921 settled in New York,

opening there a ballet school, calling it the Fokins' studio.

At various times, portraits of Fokina were created by Korovin, Serebryakova, Bobyshev, Kinney, Link.

Feshin painted at least three picturesque portraits of Vera Fokina (Etude, 1926 [?], private collection, USA; Portrait of Vera Fokina [in front of the mirror], 1926 [?], Private collection, USA; Princess, 1927, Baylor University Waco, TX, USA)

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