Niko Pirosmani
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| 1900 Self-Portrait oil on oilcloth 38 x 49 cm |
Pirosmani was the subject of a stylish and stylised film by Giorgi Shengelaya, made in 1969, that won the Grand Prix at the Chicago Film Festival in 1972. I loved this film when it came out and saw it at the cinema at least four times. It employed stylised scenes where people were posed straight at the camera, emulating the style of Pirosmani's paintings.
Niko Pirosmani was born in the Georgian village of Mirzaani to a peasant family of farming smallholders. He was later orphaned and left in the care of his two elder sisters. They all moved to the capital Tbilisi in 1870. In 1872 he worked as a servant to wealthy families, and learned to read and write Russian and Georgian. In 1876 he returned to Mirzaani and worked as a herdsman.
He gradually taught himself to paint. One of his specialties was painting directly into black oilcloth. In 1882 he opened a painting workshop with self-taught George Zaziashvili, making signboards. He also worked for shopkeepers in Tbilisi, creating signboards, paintings and portraits as commissions.
In the 1910s he won the critical enthusiasm of the Russian poet Mikhail Le-Dantyu and the artist Kirill Zdanevich and his brother Ilia Zdanevich. Ilia Zhdanevich wrote a letter about Pirosmani to the newspaper Zakavkazskaia Rech, which it published in 1913. He also undertook to publicise Pirosmani's painting in Moscow. The Moscow newspaper Moskovskaia Gazeta wrote about the exhibition Mishenwhere self-taught painters exhibited, among them four works by Pirosmani. Critics writing later in the same newspaper were impressed with his talent. In the same year an article about Pirosmani and his art was published in Georgian newspaper Temi.
The Society of Georgian Painters, founded in 1916 by Dito Shevardnadze, invited Pirosmani to its meetings and began to take him up, but his relations with the society were always uneasy. His continuing poverty, compounded by the economic problems caused by the First World War, meant that his life ended with his work effectively unrecognised. In April 1918 he died of malnutrition and liver failure.
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| Georgian banknote featuring Niko Pirosmani |
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| c1905 Giraffe oil on oilcloth 139 x 111 cm |
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| 1905 Ortachali Beauty oil on oilcloth 52 x 117 cm |
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| c1905 Woman with a Mug of Beer oil on oilcloth |
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| c1905 Gate Keeper oil on oilcloth 101 x 47 cm |
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| 1906 Feast with Barrel Organist Datico oil on oilcloth 106 x 198 cm |
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| 1906 A Georgian Woman with Tambourine oil on oilcloth |
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| 1906 Portrait of Alexander Garanov oil on oilcloth 109 x 90 cm |
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| 1906 Fisherman among Rocks oil on oilcloth 53 x 126 cm |
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| 1906 The Feast of Five Princes oil on oilcloth |
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| 1907 Rant oil on oilcloth 113 x 177 cm |
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| 1907 Family Feast oil on oilcloth 116 x 171 cm |
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| 1908 Fisherman in a Red Shirt oil on oilcloth 113 x 93 cm |
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| 1909 Actress Margarita oil on oilcloth 117 x 94 cm |
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| 1913 Portrait of Ilya Zdanevich oil on oilcloth |
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| 1917 She-Bear with Two Cubs |
I do not have dates for the remainder of these works:
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| A Boy Carrying Food oil on oilcloth 82 x 48 cm |
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| A Large Wine Jug in the Forest oil on oilcloth |
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| A Peasant Woman with her Son oil on oilcloth 75 x 56 cm |
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| Cold Beer (sign) oil on oilcloth |
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| Childless Millionaire and the Poor with Children oil on oilcloth 114 x 156 cm |
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| Cold Beer (sign) oil on oilcloth |
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| Company Bego 66 x 102 cm |
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| Cook oil on oilcloth 106 x 46cm |
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| Company Bego |
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| Feast at Gvimradze oil on oilcloth 123 x 210 cm |
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| Father and Son |
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| Easter Lamb oil on oilcloth |
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| Feast in the Grape Arbor oil on oilcloth 140 x 114 cm |
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| Feast of Four Residents |
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| Firewood Seller oil on oilcloth |
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| Girl with a Ball oil on cardboard 75 x 55 cm |
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| Girl with a Balloon oil on oilcloth |
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| Fruit Stall oil on oilcloth |
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| Healer on a Donkey oil on oilcloth 89 x 100 cm |
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| Little Kinko oil on oilcloth |
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| Lamb and Easter Table with Flying Angels oil on oilcloth |
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| Prince with a Horn of Wine oil on oilcloth |
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| Ram oil on oilcloth 49 x 80 cm |
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| Peasant Woman with Children Going for Water |
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| Roe with a landscape in the background |
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| Roe Deer by a Creek oil on oilcloth |
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| Sow with Piglets oil on cardboard |
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| Sister of Mercy |
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| St. George Anchorite |
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| Still Life oil on oilcloth |
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| Tatar - Camel Driver oil on oilcloth |
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| The Sister and Brother oil 120 x 102 cm |
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| The Son of a Rich Kintos oil on oilcloth 106 x 46 cm |
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| Threshing Yard, Evening oil on oilcloth |
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| White Cow on a Black Background oil on oilcloth 80 x 100 cm |
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| Wine Makers |
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| Woman with Flowers oil on oilcloth 111 x 52 cm |
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| Woman Carrying Eggs oil on cardboard |
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