More paintings of Niko Pirosmani

Art Sunday; Niko Pirosmani

Niko Pirosmani
(Nikolai Aslanovich Pirosmanashvili)

(1862- 1918)

http://www.abcgallery.com/P/pirosmani/pirosmani.html

A couple of weeks ago Kathy posted a picture of a cow that I really liked. I decided to see if I could find other stuff by the same artist, and I did, and here it is. So this post is all thanks to Kathy and her cow really………thanks Kath 

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 Pirosmani (1862? - 1918) was a Georgian Primitivist painter of the turn of the 20th Century. Without any formal education in art or, in fact, much of an education in anything, he made up for this with innate talent and the fecundity of his brush. Over the course of his brief life (he died at the age of 56), much of which passed in poverty and vagrancy, and working with only the cheapest materials, Pirosmani produced an immense number of paintings, a large chunk of which are lost. The artist's work came to public attention only towards the end of his life, almost by accident, and he had only a handful of exhibitions.

I've posted more of his paintings here

http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/photos/album/288/More_paintings_of_Niko_Pirosmani

Read more here
http://www.abcgallery.com/P/pirosmani/pirosmani.html