Lot 191: * KHARITONOV, ALEXANDER (1932-1993), Summer. Flowers, signed with initials and dated 1959, also further titled in Cyrillic and dated "XI-59" on the reverse.

* KHARITONOV, ALEXANDER (1932-1993), Summer. Flowers, signed with initials and dated 1959, also further titled in Cyrillic and dated "XI-59" on the reverse, Oil on canvas, 51 by 64 cm.
Provenance: Collection of Gennady Blinov, a collector of Nonconformist art, Moscow.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1960.
Private collection, USA.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by Tatiana Sokolova-Kharitonova, the artist's widow.