Measures 11 ½ x 8" overall, the image is approx. 8 ½ x 6 ¼". The image depicts a scene in a foundry, and is so named in the artist's hand, in pencil, under the image on bottom left. His handwritten signature and date are also under the image, on the right. This lithograph can be very nicely paired with an almost identical one, in red, which the artist named The Red Series.

In excellent, outstanding condition. The image is pristine. The margins around it are also very clean which is rare in an original work manhandled by the artist. The verso shows just minimal storage

Measures 11 ½ x 8" overall, the image is approx. 8 ½ x 6 ¼". The image depicts a scene in a foundry, and is so named in the artist's hand, in pencil, under the image on bottom left. His handwritten signature and date are also under the image, on the right. This lithograph can be very nicely paired with an almost identical one, in red, which the artist named The Red Series.

In excellent, outstanding condition. The image is pristine. The margins around it are also very clean which is rare in an original work manhandled by the artist. The verso shows just minimal storage wear.

Valentin Novichenko (Валентин Алексеевич Новиченко, 1927-2010) is a well-known master of graphic arts from the Urals. He was born into a working-class family. His childhood impressions of industry and the construction of the Orsk Metallurgical Kombinat (group of factories) deeply affected his art.

He participated in the Patriotic War and then graduated from the Sverdlovsk School of Arts, which he attended from 1956 to 1961. In 1966 he became a member of the Trade Union of Artists of the USSR and a permanent participant of all-Union exhibitions. From 1953 to 1963 he worked as a decorator at the Uralkhimmash and Uralmash, both of which were gigantic powerhouses of Soviet industry that played an extremely important role in the development of the industrial might of the Soviet Union as well as its defense during the Great Patriotic War. They also played a major role in the development of the city of Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) and the entire Urals Region.

After the death of the artist in 2010, a number of his exhibitions opened in his native Urals and in Moscow, and well-known collectors are now trying to acquire his works. As is evident from his correspondence with colleagues that is now kept in a private collection, Novichenko had a difficult personality. He never tried to sell his works to collectors or earn favors from the bureaucrats managing arts; he also refused to sell his painting to the managing committees of exhibitions on their terms. He was a tireless innovator, always in search of new materials and techniques, and this consumed his entire life. His lithographs on metal or so-called "poly-etching graphics" that employed various techniques and metal cutting instruments invented by him, make his art truly unique and of enduring value.

Please note that the pen in our last photo is for size reference.
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