"Unknown" from SOVKOMA

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Mysterious is the word "unknown"!
Alone elevates it to the world level, such as sculptors.
Others - the opposite way and leaves in complete obscurity.

Looking through the pre-auction catalog Sovkoma on December 3, 2009, I discovered the work of an unknown artist, it seemed to me, familiar. A closer examination I discovered the following:
1. And work something signed in the lower right corner, then have the artist can not be "unknown". Signed - Stozharau. Do business with Raymond Johnson of the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis so bad that he decided to sell their work on Sovkome?
2. And the size shown on the work of some strange - 185 x 153. Judging by his work must be vertical, and it horizontal, and even in the proportions of almost 1:2. Here's something from Ray Johnson's right-size 97 x 183
3. In Ray's work is called "Karpogory. Well.", And this somehow "Rural landscape." Perhaps "unknown" did not know where these wells Russian people are building.
4. Want to get a good price for the work Sovkomovtsy measuring 2 m - 832-1040 $, there probably is not Ray, he had a one way ticket costs so much.

But what I am wondering? Let's wait for the auction and lead us all to explain. It is a pity that in the printed catalog this information will not erase what is written pen ...

Right image from Ray Johnson.

P.S. Interestingly, but not any more at the auction "unknown" for the signature of Repin, for example?

http://sovcom.ru/index.php?category=...36&auction=136