Two museums in the U.S. are offering Russian art from their collections at a Sotheby's auction in New York this fall.

The Nov. 1 Important Russian Art sale will feature a masterpiece by Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955), offered on behalf of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

The rare to market "Bearing Away the Bride" (estimate $3/5 million) is a monumental canvas painted by the artist after his travels to remote villages outside Kazan in 1906 and 1907. The scene depicts a wedding ritual at the moment when a groom leads his new bride to their shared home for the first time.

"'Bearing Away the Bride' is the key painting from Fechin’s exceptionally rare Russian period that defined him as a mature artist, having arrived at the distinct style and ethnographic interests that would characterize his long and prosperous career," said a Sotheby's statement. "As rich in color and texture as it is in detail, the painting is among the most singularly accomplished of his entire oeuvre."

Two other Fechin paintings, "Peasant Girl" from 1938 and "Temple Dancer," both estimated at $200,000/300,000, will also be offered from the museum's collection.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum says it will use funds from the sale of the Fechins to acquire more Western materials. The museum retains a large collection of Fechin's work reflecting his time in the American Southwest.

Vasily Vereshchagin’s "Pearl Mosque at Delhi," dated 1876-79, from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is also offered in the sale. This work is being sold to help the museum acquire the painting "Man at His Bath" (1884), regarded as one of the greatest works by artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894).