“It’s strange that a little town like Taos, New Mexico, would get two artists from Russia,” said Frank Waters, an author who lived in Taos and knew both the artists. Leon Gaspard and Nicolai Fechin’s paintings share a “strange Asiatic color sense,” Waters added, yet one painted impressions of Taos while the other, portraits of its inhabitants. One such portrait, named simply Taos Indian, sold for $300,000, the highest bid on May 15, 2004, at Altermann Galleries in Santa Fe, New Me
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