Bidspirit auction | Tsereteli Z.K.

Tsereteli Z.K. - Episkiros. The ancient Greek ball game.. Year:  1979. Technique:  Copper, colored hot enamels. Size:  50х71. Tsereteli Zurab Konstantinovich (1934, Tbilisi - 2025, Moscow) Soviet, Russian, and Georgian muralist, sculptor, painter, and teacher. President of the Russian Academy of Arts (1997–2025). Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1988). People's Artist of the USSR (1980), People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1994), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1976), two USSR State Prizes (1970, 1982), and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996). From 1952 to 1959, he studied at the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi under V.I. Shukhaev. From 1963 to 1964, he worked as a senior foreman in the design workshop of the Tbilisi Art and Production Plant of the Art Fund of Georgia. In 1964, he studied in France. Since the late 1960s, he has been actively working in the field of monumental art. In addition to Russia, his sculptural works are located in Brazil, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, the USA, France, Japan, Georgia, and Belarus. In 1980, he was appointed Chief Artist of the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow. Since 1999, he has been the founder and director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. His works are represented in the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Tbilisi, and in many Russian and international museum collections, as well as in private collections.