Gudiashvili - "Bathing women". RARITY! 100 % AUTHENTIC! Start Price USD 55,000.00 Current Price USD 55,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, December 02, 2008 End Time Friday, December 12, 2008 Location Batumi, Adjaria See more about 'Gudiashvili - "Bathing women". ' Description RARITY! 100 % AUTHENTIC!Vladimir(Lado) Davidovich Gudiashvili - "Bathing women". Oil, canvas. 48х58 centimetres. Year of creation 1940. The signature and year of creation on the right below.                                                                                                                Good Condition!*The certificate of authenticity by the artist-expert: Zaur Tsuladze.   You can learn more about this painting: http://antique-dealer.narod.ru   25.11.2008 at auction Sothebys (London, New Bond Street) painting of the same author "Dancer" was on sale under the starting price 123 984 USD!!! 24.11.2008 at auction Sothebys (London, New Bond Street) painting of the same author "Paris and the parisians" has been sold for 238 328 USD!!! 26.11.2007 at auction Sothebys (London, New Bond Street) painting of the same author "Green nymphs" has been sold for 1 202 099 USD!!!   Lado Gudiashvili (Georgian: ლადო გუდიაშვილი) (1896–1980) was a 20th century Georgian painter. Gudiashvili was born in Tiflis on March 18 (30), 1896 into a family of a railroad employee. He studied in the Tiflis school of sculpture and fine art (1910-1914), and later in Ronson's private academy in Paris (1919-1926). For a while, Gudiashvili belonged to a group of Georgian poets called "The Blue Horns" (1914-1918), who were trying to connect organically the Georgian national flavor with the creative structure of French symbolism. In Paris, he was a constant customer of the famous "La Ruche," a colony of painters where he met I. Zuloaga, Amedeo Modigliani, Natalia Goncharova, and Mikhail Larionov. Gudiashvili's work was greatly influenced by Niko Pirosmanashvili. Filled with the charm of Georgian life, the painter's early works combine dramatic grotesque with the charm of poetic mystery ("Live Fish," 1920, Art Museum of Georgia). Closeness to the traditions of old Caucasian and Persian art was amplified upon his return to Georgia in 1926. Gudiashvili's colors become warmer, and the perception of the world as a theater grew stronger (many of Gudiashvili's paintings were either inspired by operas and balles or serve to depict actresses in costumes). Like his compatriots (Grigol Robakidze, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia), Gudiashvili freely used mythological allegories ("The Walk of Seraphita," 1940), the center of which was a graciously beautiful woman imagined as the mysterious "Goddess of the Earth." Gudiashvili also worked as a monumentalist, painting anew the Kashveti church in Tbilisi in 1946, for which he was expelled from the Communist Party and fired from the Tbilisi academy of fine arts, where he had been teaching since 1926. In the voluminous "antifascist cycle" of Indian ink drawings Gudiashvili became a kind of "Georgian Goya": beastlike monsters surrounded the ruins of art and naked "goddesses" conveyed the ideas of the death of culture. Lado Gudiashvili worked also as a book illustrator, cinema and theater decorator. He died on July 20, 1980 in Tbilisi.     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *On the back of a canvas there is small crack, therefore in this place the canvas has been patched (the sizes of the patched place 4х3 centimetres). Place a Bid!