Fechin Still Life Fetches Top Result At Andrew Jones Auctions

LOS ANGELES — Topping Andrew Jones Auctions’ July 26 Design for the Home and Garden sale, and more than doubling pre-sale expectations, was a circa 1925 still life with flowers and fruit by Russian artist, Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955). Offered from the Indian Wells, Calif., collection of Mary and Lou Silver, the painting had provenance to the Newhouse Galleries of New York City and an American estate that had acquired it directly from the artist in 1927. An international collector pre