MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions 25-27 November 2019

25 November 2019

Artist Index / Full Catalogue


Poets' Promenade

268. GUDIASHVILI, LADO (1896–1980)

Poets' Promenade, signed.

Oil on canvas, 42 by 33.5 cm.
30,000–50,000 GBP


Provenance: Collection of Sh. Makharadze (inscriptions on the reverse and the stretcher).
Private collection, Europe.

Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert Yu. Rybakova.

Exhibited: Vystavka proizvedenii zasluzhennogo deiatelia iskusstv Gruzinskoi SSR khudozhnika Lado Gudiashvili, Georgian State Picture Gallery, Tbilisi, 1957.
Vystavka proizvedenii narodnogo khudozhnika Gruzinskoi SSR Lado Gudiashvili, Exhibition Gallery of the Union of Soviet Artists, Moscow, 1958 (label on the stretcher).

Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Katalog vystavki proizvedenii zasluzhennogo deiatelia iskusstv Gruzinskoi SSR khudozhnika Lado Gudiashvili, Tbilisi, Sakhelgami, 1957, p. 42, listed under the works from 1949.
L. Zlatkevich, Lado Gudiashvili, Tbilisi, Ganatleba, 1971, p. 183, listed.
M. Kagan, Lado Goudiachvili, Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1984, p. 195, listed.


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§ Indicates Artist's Resale Right applies.
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