Alexandra Nechita (Born 1985) American/Romanian, Cubist Watercolor on Paper. A Picasso-esque figure in blue, orange, and green tones. Signed and dated 2002 in ink lower right. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity dated March 24th, 2004 which includes title: "Study for Foolish Identity." 

Overall Size: 26 1/4 x 29 in. 

Sight Size: 8 3/4 x 12 in. 

Frame Thickness: 1 1/2 in. 

Alexandra Nechita was born on August 27th, 1985 in Vaslui, three months after her father escaped from Communist Romania. She and her mother, Viorica, had to wait two years before they were allowed to join him in the United States. The family settled in California, where her father found work as a lab technician and her mother as an office manager. At the age of two she was working with pen and ink, and by five with watercolors. By her seventh birthday oil and acrylics were her primary tools. She had her first solo exhibition at age eight at the public library in Whittier, Los Angeles County. While studying at Orange Lutheran High School, a private school in Orange County, she was taken to Paris in 1995 to work at the Mourlot Studios. That same year she became the youngest artist to sign with International Art Publishers, and at age of 12 she was dubbed the “Petite Picasso” by a local newspaper. Before she turned eighteen she had presented over twenty solo exhibitions and made nearly $3 million in sales, gaining international attention when she was chosen to design the 39th Annual Grammy Awards Program in 1997. In 1999 she was selected by the World Federation of United Nations Association to lead a Global Arts Initiative, heralded both as a child prodigy and a bridge between many cultures for her style, composition, and diverse subject matter. In 2005 Nechita unveiled her United Nations Peace Monument for Asia in Singapore, to be displayed at the Catholic High School. Nechita was elected to the Board of Selectors of the Jefferson Awards for Public Service in 2006, and was awarded Woman of the Year by the American Red Cross in 2007. She graduated from UCLA in 2008 with a degree in Fine Arts and currently lives in Los Angeles. In 2014 she married longtime boyfriend Dimitry Tcharfas, with whom she has a daughter and a son, and she continues to produce art in a predominantly Cubist format, both in original and commissioned works that command large sums all over the world.