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Property from a Private European Collection

MERAB ABRAMISHVILI | PARADISE

Lot Closed

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.