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Property from a Private European Collection
MERAB ABRAMISHVILI | PARADISE
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June 2, 03:20 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
MERAB ABRAMISHVILI
1957-2006
PARADISE
signed and titled in Georgian and dated 1993 on the reverse
tempera, gesso and linen on plywood
Board: 121 by 243cm, 47½ by 95½in.
Framed: 125 by 247cm, 49¼ by 97¼in.
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Baia Gallery, Tbilisi
Sotheby's London, At the Crossroads 2: Contemporary Art from Istanbul to Kabul, 27 March - 1 April 2014, lot 28
Acquired at the above selling exhibition by the present owner
Nina Shervashidze (ed.), Merab Abramishvili: Paintings, Graphics, Tbilisi, 2010, p.51 illustrated
Tbilisi, TMS Gallery, Merab Abramishvili: The Abandoned Side, 2007
Tbilisi, Hobby Gallery, Merab Abramishvili, 2010
Tbilisi, Baia Gallery, Merab Abramishvili, 2012
This contemporary Georgian artist was one of the most original talents to emerge from post-Soviet visual culture. Inspired by Persian miniatures and Georgian mediaeval frescoes (on which his father was a scholar) Abramishvili developed a traditional technique using hand-prepared plaster and tempera paints sealed with egg yolk to create a translucent palette and works of exceptional delicacy. Like the ancient art that inspired him, Abramishvili prized decorativeness and pattern over realism and perspective and his thematic preoccupations were no less ancient: beauty, peace, music, eternity.