Niko Pirosmani
$87.90
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2024
Summary
A Legendary Artist Revisited
Unknown to many, Niko Pirosmani is revered as a legend in his native Georgia. Conveying a sense of poignant empathy, his portraits, animal paintings, landscapes and scenes from everyday life painted around 1900 in a flourishing Tbilisi draw on medieval iconography and testify to a deeply felt sense of belonging. At the same time, the avant-garde recognised a novel and radically new form of painting in his work. Like Henri Rousseau or Marc …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783775755146 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3775755144 |
| Author: | Dan Solbach, Sam Keller, Daniel Baumann |
| Publisher: | Hatje Cantz |
| Imprint: | Hatje Cantz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 960g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 300mm |
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Dan Solbach
Born into a peasant family, NIKO PIROSMANI (1862 - 1918) arrived in Tbilisi in 1870. Painting portraits and tavern signs for room and board, he came to the attention of the Georgian and Russian avant-garde in 1912, who presented him a year later as the “Rousseau of the East” in the Moscow exhibition Mischen alongside works of Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich and Marc Chagall. An exhibition in Paris was planned, yet never to happen due to the First World War. Pirosmani died impoverished in 1918. Today he is Georgia’s most celebrated artist.
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