1896-1980
Painting, Graphics, Monumental painting, Stage design
Lado Gudiashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1896. During 1910-1914 he was studying Tbilisi School of Sculpture and Fine Arts. He established Association of Georgian Artists together with other painters. He studied at Ronson’s private school called “Free Academy” in Paris in 1919–1926. During 1926–1932 Gudiashvili was teaching monumental-decorative painting at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Gudiashvili the most important monumental works are painting at Art-cafe Kimerioni in Tbilisi (1919), also altar painting in Kashveti Church (1946). Artist got Shota Rustaveli prize in 1965 and he was awarded as honoured citizen in 1975. Lado Gudiashvili exhibition space and gallery was opened on his named street in 2011 and it is functioning till now.
Lado Gudiashvili represents Georgian modernists generation of 20th century. Lado Gudiashvili did not develop abstract style in his artworks. Except cubism and non-figurativism, he tried to discover national forms with his individual expressive style. In his paintings linear representation is dominant. Lado Gudiashvili is a well-known painter internationally, different books are published about his life and work. Artworks by Gudiashvili are stored in different private collections and museums in Georgia and abroad (among those are: the National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; G. Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia; Museum of Shota Rustaveli Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia; Dresden Gallery, Dresden, Germany; Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain; and etc. )
Selected exhibitions:
1957 - Solo exhibition, Tbilisi Fine Arts Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
1935-1936 - Solo exhibition, gallery Billiet, Paris, France
1934 - Exhibition of Soviet Graphics London, Glasgow
1933 - Exhibitions of Modern paintings New-York (Custom House), Chicago, Philadelphia, USA
1928 - International exhibition, Venice 16th Biennial, Italy
1926 -Solo exhibition, Shota Rustaveli Theatre Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia
1925 - Solo Exhibition, gallery Billiet, Paris, France
1923 - J. Rosenberg organised exhibition together with works of other painters (A. Matisse, A. Modigliani, P. Signac, and others), New Gallery, New York, USA
1922 - Solo Exhibition, gallery La Licorne, Paris, France
1921 - Exhibition of the “Association of Independent Painters”, Paris, France
1921 - Exhibition of Russian painters (L. Bakst, N. Goncharova, M. Larionov, S. Sorin, S. Sudeykin, and others), gallery Densi, Paris, France
1920 - Gudiashvili artworks ehibition “Autoumn Salon” (Salon d’Autumne), Paris, France
1918 - Georgian artists exhibition, “Temple of Glory” of Tiflis , Tbilisi, Georgia
