£1,260
MODERN MADE: Modern & Post-War Art, Design & Studio Ceramics | 695
Auction: 28 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
signed (lower right), oil on canvas
Provenance:
Commissioned from the artist by the sitter's husband, by whom given to the present owner.
Fechenbach studied at the Academies of Art in Stuttgart, Munich, Florence and Vienna between 1919 and 1926. In 1939, fleeing the outbreak of World War Two, the painter emigrated to Buckinghamshire in England, where he continued to paint until his death. This portrait was executed in Oxfordshire.