Nikolai Triik (1884-1940) was one of Estonia’s most important exponents of Modernism in painting. Triik was at the vanguard of a group of young painters and writers who turned their gaze west, towards Scandinavia and Paris, to free themselves from what was seen as an undeveloped arts culture at home. A renowned portraitist and landscape painter, Triik’s innovative use of color mark his works as especially aesthetically pleasing and insightful in his portraiture. Tallinn Arts