Avto Varazi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Avto Varazi

Georgian painter

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1926

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1977

Profession: painter

Nationality: Georgia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Avto Varazi (Georgian: ???? ??????) was a Georgian artist and painter. Varazi occupies a special place in Georgian painting of the 20th century.
He applied various painting systems and techniques with equal success.
Religious motifs also took a significant role in Varazi’s works, which was quite unusual for a painter of the Soviet period.
His teacher was a Soviet Georgian artist, graphic designer and sculptor Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan Varazi was the first among Georgian artists to apply the technique of collage. Varazi’s works are spread among world museums, while the fate of some of them remains unknown.
Bull's Head is kept at MoMa.
Another one, also named Bull's Head, representing a lamb’s head, is displayed in Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
The other Bull's Head remains with Alexander Glezer in Paris, and The Octopus is in George Costakis' private collection in Greece.
His 15 works are exhibited in Georgian National Museum; others are displayed in Kutaisi, Tsageri, Ambrolauri Museum of Fine Arts and Senaki.