Artists of Soviet Georgia: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Decorative Arts (Sabch'ota Sakartvelos mkhat'vrebi). A biographical directory of the members of the Union of Soviet Artists of Georgia, 1941. In Georgian.

Artists of Soviet Georgia: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Decorative Arts (Sabch'ota Sakartvelos mkhat'vrebi). A biographical directory of the members of the Union of Soviet Artists of Georgia, 1941. In Georgian.

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Artists of Soviet Georgia: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Decorative Arts (Sabch'ota Sakartvelos mkhat'vrebi). A biographical directory of the members of the Union of Soviet Artists of Georgia, 1941. In Georgian.
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Artists of Soviet Georgia: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Decorative Arts (Sabch'ota Sakartvelos mkhat'vrebi). A biographical directory of the members of the Union of Soviet Artists of Georgia, 1941. In Georgian.

$180.00
Sale price  $180.00 Regular price 

საბჭოთა საქართველოს მხატვრები : ფერწერა, ქანდაკება, გრაფიკა, დეკორატიული მხატვრობა / შემდგენლები: გ. გაბუნია, ნ. გუდიაშვილი, შ. კვასხვაძე, არჩილ ჯინჭარაძე ; რედაქტორი ლეო ესაკია. პირველი გამოცემა.
თბილისი : საქართველოს საბჭოთა მხატვრების კავშირი, 1941. 110, [4], VIII გვერდი, 39 ჩართული ფურცელი პორტრეტებითა და რეპროდუქციებით.
მაგარი ყდა. 21 სმ. ტირაჟი 1 000 ც.
წინა ფორზაცსა და თავფურცელზე — ცნობილი ქართველი რედაქტორისა და საზოგადო მოღვაწის, ოთარ ეგაძის საკუთრების ხელმოწერები (1942 წელი, თბილისი).
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Artists of Soviet Georgia: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Decorative Arts / compiled by G. Gabunia, N. Gudiashvili, Sh. Kvaskhvadze, Ar. Jincharadze ; foreword and editor Leo Esakia. First edition.
Tbilisi : Union of Soviet Artists of Georgia, 1941. 110, [4], VIII pp., 39 inserted leaves of portraits and reproductions.
Hardcover. 21 cm. Print run of 1,000 copies.
Signed by the prominent Georgian editor and cultural figure Otar Egadze on the front free endpaper and title page.
Binding good: fading to the cloth and light overall soiling. Text block good: occasional underlinings in red pencil in the text, otherwise clean and firm with all plates preserved.

A scarce and highly informative pre-war reference directory of Georgian visual artists, published in 1941 by the Union of Soviet Artists of Georgia. This first edition serves as a comprehensive "who is who" of the Georgian art world at the very onset of the Great Patriotic War. It encompasses sections on painting, sculpture, graphics, and decorative arts, providing biographical profiles, portraits, and monochromatic reproductions of works by leading figures of the era, including masters like David Kakabadze, Lado Gudiashvili, Mose Toidze, and Iakob Nikoladze. The volume is an invaluable primary source for art historians studying the transition of Georgian modernism into the mandated framework of Socialist Realism. Printed in a strictly limited run of only 1,000 copies, survival rates for 1941 imprints are notably low due to wartime paper recycling and historical attrition. This specific copy carries an excellent provenance, originating from the personal working library of Otar Egadze, a highly respected Georgian editor and compiler (notably of the multilingual "Martyrdom of Shushanik"). The red pencil underlinings in the text are characteristic of an editor's active reading habits. It stands as a vital documentary artifact of twentieth-century Caucasian art history.

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