Lot 138: GOROKHOVSKY, EDUARD

EDUARD GOROKHOVSKY (RUSSIAN 1929-2004), "Railroad Crossing", 1957, gouache and watercolor on paper, 40 x 60 cm (15 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.), signed and dated lower right. Lots 138 and 139 in this auction are rare early works by the iconic nonconformist Eduard Gorokhovsky. They were painted in 1957 and 1960 respectively, several years after his arrival in Novosibirsk from Odessa, where he had begun to exhibit at the official exhibits of the Novosibirsk Union of Artists