Igor Tcholaria
Marianna
£7,000.00
£7,000.00
Oil on Canvas
78cm x 59cm
Portrait of a Lady
£10,000.00
£10,000.00
Oil on Canvas
91cm x 72cm
Acrobat
£7,850.00
£7,850.00
Oil on Canvas
70 x 60 cm
The Happy Couple
£9,200.00
£9,200.00
Oil on Canvas
28 x 24 in
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Igor Tcholaria
Igor Tcholaria, who is now based in St Petersburg, was born in Ochamchiry, a small town of Abkhazia - an autonomous area of Georgia but closely allied to Russia - in 1959.
His superb technical mastery is undoubtedly attributable to his rigorous art training by his excellent teachers at the Sukhumi Art School, Georgia, and further at the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg from which he graduated in 1985. It was there that he acquired his consummate skills in various classical and modern artistic techniques and came to develop a unique, recognizable style of his own.
While occasionally drawing upon classical elements, he has nevertheless learned to organize the space of his canvasses with originality and aplomb, including oscillating specks of color reminiscent of Cézanne which punctuate the swathes of darkness tinged with gold by the passing of time and conjure Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro.
Igor Tcholaria has participated in about a hundred exhibitions at home and abroad: in 2008, for instance, he exhibited at Sokol Fine Art at the Oriel Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; The Moscow Art Fair, Russia, and the Primavera Art Fair, Rotterdam, Netherlands. His work is received great acclaim at the Hay Hill Gallery, London.
Igor Tcholaria is strongly influenced also by Modigliani and Picasso. His portrait work, including Eve, plus likenesses of Elena, Liza and Marianna, have the long sinuous necks and beautiful oval faces that define Modigliani’s hand, and he certainly pays homage to Picasso as can be seen in both his composition and palette in ‘Petrushka’ and ‘Clown on a Horse’.
Igor Tcholaria's paintings were banned for years in Soviet Russia. Today, however, his work is eagerly sought out by many contemporary collectors across the world. Recent commissions include two large works for Cunard’s Queen Mary II cruise ship, and his work can also be seen in The May Fair Hotel, London.
Working with the Phillips de Pury auction house he customised the Volvo S70 that won a gold medal at the Millionaires Fair in Moscow in March 2009.