Gigo Gabashvili

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Gigo Gabashvili
Гиго Габашвили
Giorgy "Gigo" Gabashvili
Munich Academy of Fine Arts
MovementRealism, Orientalism

Giorgi "Gigo" Ivanes dze Gabashvili (Georgian: გიორგი [გიგო] ივანეს ძე გაბაშვილი) (November 9, 1862 – October 28, 1936) was a Georgian painter and educator. One of the earliest Georgian representatives of the Realist School of Georgian painting, his work is known for covering a wide range of subjects, landscapes and scenes of everyday life through orientalist lens. Although not widely known in the West, Gabashvili's paintings are highly valued - the artist's late 19th century painting The Bazaar in Samarkand, originally commissioned by Charles Richard Crane, sold for $1.36 million dollars at Christie's in 2006.[1]

Biography

Born in

Georgian SSR (1929). He taught among others Apollon Kutateladze and Elene Akhvlediani. Gabashvili remained a staunch realist and made known his opposition to left-wing art. He died in Tsikhisdziri, Kobuleti Municipality, Georgia
, in 1936.

Works

Gigo Gabashvili is best known for his series of vivid portraits of peasants, townsmen, and noblemen ("The Three Townsmen", 1893; "The Sleeping

Oriental life – many of them based on the sketches of his Central Asian journey in 1894 ("The Bazaar in Samarkand", 1894–1897; "The Divan-Bey Pool in Bukhara", 1897; etc.). Most of his works are now on display at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi. His 1895 copy of "The Bazaar in Samarkand," created at the request of the U.S. diplomat and businessman Charles R. Crane who met him during his travel in the Caucasus, was sold for USD 1.36 million at Sotheby's in 2006.[2]

Gallery

  • The Bazaar in Samarkand, c. 1890s
    The Bazaar in Samarkand, c. 1890s
  • Old Citizen, c. 1890s
    Old Citizen, c. 1890s
  • The Bukharians, c. 1890s
    The Bukharians, c. 1890s
  • Drunk Khevsur, 1899
    Drunk Khevsur, 1899

Notes and references

  1. ^ Roy Bolton, Edward Strachan. Russian Orientalism: Central Asia & the Caucasus. Sphinx Fine Art: 2009, p. 40
  2. ^ The Golden Road to Samarkand: the Rebirth of Gigo Gabashvili's Art Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine. Georgia Today. January 12, 2007.

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