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Item Ships From: Latvia
The autumn fields. 2005. Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The autumn fields. 2005. Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm How to understand Sigita Daugule's work? At the cradle of her style (emerged in late 90s) there are...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boats. Paper/pastel. 9, 5x13, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boats. Paper/pastel. 9,5x13,5 cm. Georgs Barkans (1925-2010) Textile artist, architect, artist Professional education: University of Latvia, Faculty of Architecture (1945-1952) Art ...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

The hidden million words. 2004. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm.
By Juris Zvirbulis
Located in Riga, LV
The hidden million words. 2004. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm. Juris Zvirbulis was born in 1944 in Riga. 1970 graduated from the Riga Secondary School of Applied Arts decorators department. 1971 Member Artists' Union of the Latvia. In 1971 First solo exhibition in the artistic and historical museum of Tukums in Latvia. In 1974 his illustrations for the A.S. Pushkin's book, "Eugene Onegin" (published Liesma) was awarded at the 7th All-Union competition of books, posters and postcards design (Moscow, USSR). Significant exhibitions: 1976 - First place in the All-Union Exhibition of Young Artists in Moscow 1983 - Solo exhibition at the Museum of Foreign Art (Riga, Latvia) 1988 - personal exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Russia) Museum bought more than 100 of the artist miniatures to collection. 1989 - Group exhibition "Contemporary Soviet Painters from Riga" Edward Nahamkina Art Gallery (New York, USA) 1990 - Group exhibition at the Astra Gallery (Chicago, USA) 1990 - 1992 - works exhibited in the Harmony Gallery (Paris, France) 1992 - Solo exhibition at Gallery Carre d'Or (Paris, France) 1993 - Solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Riga (Riga, Latvia) 1994 - Exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary at the Latvian National Art Museum, Exhibition Hall Arsenals (Riga, Latvia) 1997 - Solo exhibition at the Gallery of Riga (Riga, Latvia). In cooperation with IBM Latvia and Modo Paper released exhibition catalog. 1998 - Exhibition of watercolors - miniatures at Gallery "Nocturne", Riga 1999 - personal exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Russia) 2004 - personal exhibition at gallery "Manss" (Jekabpils, Latvia) 2005 - Group exhibition of Latvian-French festival "Amazing Latvia" (in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France). 2011 - Contemporary Art exhibition-fair at Gallery Birkenfeld ArtVilnius'11 (Vilnius, Lithuania) Group Exhibition-Fair of Lineart Contemporary Art (Ghent, Belgium). Group exhibition at the Art Museum Nerima (Tokyo, Japan) 2012 Released artist album "Retrospective". Solo exhibition "The Battle of Waterloo would have ended differently ... Dedication to Marshal L.N. Davu." At gallery Birkenfelds. The artist works in the following genres and techniques: watercolor, painting, drawing, book illustrations, murals for public interiors in Latvia and abroad. Works in museums and private collections: At the Latvian National Museum of Art, at collection of Artists' Union of Latvia, Russian Ministry of Culture (Moscow, Russia), the Pushkins` State Museum (Russia), Bank of Latvia, Džeinas Vorhīsas Cimerlī Art Museum, Radzhersa, State University of New Jersey, at collection of Norton and Nancy Dodge nonconformist art of the Soviet Union (US), Vitaly Gotlib (Latvia), and Indra Benjamin Wilson...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape with mountains, south of France. Oil on cardboard on canvas, 38x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape with mountains, south of France. Oil on cardboard on canvas, 38x53 cm
Category

1970s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Port. Big Ship 1964. Oil on cardboard, 55x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Port. Big Ship 1964. Oil on cardboard, 55x70 cm He learned at State Technique of Riga, architecture department. 1937 –Latvian academy of Art, landscape Studio of V. Purvitis, with ...
Category

1960s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Butterfly hunting 2001, wood, oil, 50.5x34 cm
By Dmitry Lavrentjev
Located in Riga, LV
Butterfly hunting 2001, wood, oil, 50.5x34 cm
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

Cranes are Flying, 2011., oil on canvas, 65x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Cranes are Flying, 2011., oil on canvas, 65x70 cm Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with red hair. 1996. Oil on cardboard, 90x83 cm This depiction of young nude woman with red hair on green-pink-blue background shows the artist as a master of forms and color field areas. Laimdots Murnieks...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Spring. 1997, oil on cardboard, 74x85 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the fee...
Category

1990s Modern Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Two trees and the sun. 2002. Cardboard, oil, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the f...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Moonlight. 2000, cardboard, oil, 81x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Laimdots Murnieks had a significant influence on the development of Latvian painting at the end of the 20th century. His work 'Holiday' conveys the f...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Violet Melody (Accordion time). 2014. Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Violet Melody (Accordion time). 2014. Oil on canvas, 50x60 cm
Category

2010s Romantic Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

An Apples. 1998-2015. Oil on linen, 64, 5 x 75 cm
Located in Riga, LV
An Apples. ( To Steve Jobs Memory) 1998-2015. Oil on linen, 64,5 x 75 cm
Category

2010s Romantic Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Flutist and Mandolin Player. 2016. Oil on canvas, 64x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flutist and Mandolin Player. 2015. Oil on canvas, 64x70 cm from series Playing Angels
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Die Jugend. 1970. Oil on plywood, 78x52 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Act in pink. 1970. Oil on plywood, 78x52 cm Composition with woman act in pink color
Category

1970s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Rosehip. oil on cardboard, 23x27, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rosehip. Oil on cardboard, 23x27,5 cm
Category

1970s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

I. 2011-2013. Paper, plastic glass, oil, 90x68 cm
By Verners Lazdans
Located in Riga, LV
I. 2011-2013. Paper, plastic glass, oil, 90x68cm
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Plastic, Paper, Oil

III. 2011-2013. Paper, plastic glass, oil, 90x68 cm
By Verners Lazdans
Located in Riga, LV
III. 2011-2013. Paper, plastic glass, oil, 90x68cm
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Plastic, Paper, Oil

Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
By Raimonds Staprаns
Located in Riga, LV
Woman portrait. 1955, oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm Elegant woman portrait with scarf
Category

1950s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Feeling. 2011, oil on canvas, 60x120 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A feeling. 2011, oil on canvas, 60x120 cm Zane Balode (1983) Born in Riga. 1992. to 1995. - drawing and painting training 1995.- 2003. - J. Rosenthal Riga Art School, secondary prof...
Category

2010s Abstract Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Autumn day at the Lake. Oil on canvas. 49x69 cm
By Valiahmetov Amir Hasnulovitch
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn day at the Lake. Oil on canvas. 49x69 cm Valiahmetov Amir Hasnulovitch (1927 07 01 Kazan - 2014 Moscow) He graduated a Art Institut of Moscow by V. I. Surikov and learned to ...
Category

1980s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Bridge. 2011, oil on canvas, 80x120 cm
By Rihards Delvers
Located in Riga, LV
The Bridge. 2011, oil on canvas, 80x120 cm Rihards Delvers (1968) Rihards Delvers graduated from J. Rozentals School of Art in Riga (1986) and Painting Department (I. Zariņš studio...
Category

2010s Abstract Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Balcony. 2015. Oil on canvas, 90X70 cm
By Vadim Kovalev
Located in Riga, LV
Balcony. Oil on canvas, 90X70 cm The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating his works. When Vadim was ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Africa. Oil on canvas, 80X60 cm
By Vadim Kovalev
Located in Riga, LV
Africa. Oil on canvas, 80X60 cm The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vatican. Oil on wood, 76X90 cm
By Vadim Kovalev
Located in Riga, LV
Vatican. Oil on wood, 76X90 cm The artist Vadim Kovalev was born in 1968 in the capital of Latvia, Riga, where he is also presently living and creating ...
Category

2010s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

By the sea. 2001, cardboard, author s technique, 17.5x25 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By the sea. 2001, cardboard, author's technique, 17.5x25 cm Ivars Zaikins (1942-2017) Zaikins Ivars - an artist. He was born in 1942. During of the Sov...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Cardboard

Will-o -the-wisp. 2018, oil on canvas, 100x100cm
By Agate Apkalne
Located in Riga, LV
Will-o'-the-wisp. 2018, oil on canvas, 100x100cm Portrait on black background Agate Apkalne. Born in Riga, 1977 Education: 2005 – MA in arts, Art Acade...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boats. 1980. Canvas, oil, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boats. 1980. Canvas, oil, 70x70 cm Contrasting landscape with boats in cubistic style in red and yellow tones
Category

1980s Cubist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In early spring. 2000. Paper, watercolor, 59x69 cm
By Zigmunds Snore
Located in Riga, LV
In early spring. Paper, watercolor, 59x69 cm Landscape with trees in earth colors Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibi...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Small town. Red-blue mood. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 60, 5 x 71, 5 cm
By Zigmunds Snore
Located in Riga, LV
Small town. Red-blue mood. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 60,5 x 71,5 cm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collec...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Morning at the sea. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 40 x 62 cm
By Zigmunds Snore
Located in Riga, LV
Morning at the sea. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 40 x 62 cm Sea with waves in yellow colors Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

After the storm. 2020. Watercolor, paper, 70 x 96 cm
By Zigmunds Snore
Located in Riga, LV
After the storm. Watercolor, paper, 70 x 96 cm Sea after the storm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collec...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Regatta. 2019. Watercolor, paper, 69, 5 x 97 cm
By Zigmunds Snore
Located in Riga, LV
Regatta. 2019. Watercolor, paper, 69,5 x 97 cm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Great grandfather at sea II. Watercolor, paper, 67 x 95, 5 cm
By Zigmunds Snore
Located in Riga, LV
Great grandfather at sea II. Watercolor, paper, 67 x 95,5 cm Dark sea with two ships Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Human touch X. 2021. Canvas, acrylic, 25x25 cm
By Irina Spakova
Located in Riga, LV
Human touch X. 2021. Canvas, acrylic, 25x25 cm Irina Spakova, Riga based artist from Latvia (1987). She holds Ba & Ma degrees in Visual Arts, took part...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Human touch XIII. 2019. Acrylic on paper, 16x17 cm
By Irina Spakova
Located in Riga, LV
Human touch XIII. 2019. Acrylic on paper, 16x17 cm Irina Spakova, Riga based artist from Latvia (1987). She holds Ba & Ma degrees in Visual Arts, took ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Human touch XVII. 2021. Canvas, acrylic, 30x40 cm
By Irina Spakova
Located in Riga, LV
Human touch XVII. 2021. Canvas, acrylic, 30x40 cm Irina Spakova, Riga based artist from Latvia (1987). She holds Ba & Ma degrees in Visual Arts, took par...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Tuileries Garden Paris. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tuileries Garden. Paris. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 38x50 cm Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga Education: 1980. – 1987. J. Rozental...
Category

2010s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

In the realm of the forest king. 2017, Oil on canvas, 120x160 cm
Located in Riga, LV
"I like to observe nature, animals, birds, landscapes. I depict my observations in paintings. Painting helps me to see, feel and understand the world, to be part of the world." -Jānis Ziņgītis...
Category

2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pisan. 1995, oil on canvas, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Kaspars Zarins Born in 1962 Professional training: Janis Rozentals Art School of Riga (1973 - 1980), Painting Department at the Latvian Academy of Arts (1980 - 1986) under the sup...
Category

1990s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer. 2021. Oil on canvas, 70x70 cm Colorful bright artwork with two girls Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl with a rooster. 2020. Oil on canvas, 70x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girl with a rooster. 2020. Oil on canvas, 70x65 cm Colorful bright artwork girl with a rooster Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Circus Princess. 2015. Oil on canvas, 65x60 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Circus Princess. 2015. Oil on canvas, 65x60 cm Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani...
Category

2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Saxophonist. 2021. Oil on canvas, 80x60cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saxophonist. 2021. Oil on canvas, 80x60cm Nugzar Avtandilovich Kahiani was born in Poti, Georgia in 1952. He studied at the Art College named after Nikoladze. Then he went to serve in the Soviet Army from1970 to 1972. After completing his military service he entered the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry at the faculty of artistic metal, from which he graduated in 1986. During his studies, he has been actively engaged in painting. His favorite artists are Gauguin, El Greco, Botticelli, Turner and Picasso. Works of artistic stone He worked also with stone, cornelian and onyx. But his soul gravitated to bright and blustery color, and so he has became engaged in painting. At first his paintings were quiet, with muted tonal gamma. The color image was built on the play of hues and halftones. Such a careful elaboration of color educates the taste, sharpness and delicacy of vision. Gradually, the painter became more experienced, and his paintings acquired assurance and power of maturity, blooming in colorful brilliancy. Nugzar's color preferences The color of Nugzar’s paintings is deep and multi-layered. It is woven of infinite number of hues and filled with light. At first sight it may be difficult to recognize the shapes in the play of flickering color dabs. The figures appear gradually, they draw the first breath just before our eyes, crystallizing from the color heap. The painter is attracted by major tonality and motives that years ago could be called “the gallant feasts” - repasts, assiduities, music parties, and airings. After somewhat daemonic, infernal imagery of early paintings, it has appeared the theme of “Le joie de vivre,” the joy of life. Source of inspiration Born in the ancient Kolkhida, he keeps the blissful pagan feel of entirety and completeness of being. It is embodied almost literally in his favorite personage auroral gorgeous-bodied beauty of a girl. He grants these forms even to Olympian inhabitants - Aphrodite, Athene, Arthemide, let alone the Bacchants. I remember unwittingly that Niko Pirosmani similarly painted on his impoverished buckrams the luxurious prince repasts and languid, elephantine beauties. Working style But his style is not bounded by grotesque parody, as well as the irony is not the only aspect of his world outlook. In his landscapes we can catch the ecstatic admiration with Nature. In contradistinction to his favorite impressionists, he never paints from nature and never bears in mind the particular place. It is just a blooming Earth, studied very closely, so that the trees are cut by the edges of the painting, and at the same time it is a bird’s eye view revealing infinite, boundless spaces. Nougzar says that the landscape for him is first of all a color ensemble. He can just leaf through the illustrated journal, nourishing his eye with color in various combinations, and so get the impulse to create a ‘physical’ landscape image. Probably, his landscapes are no less fantastical than his figure compositions, but such is his talent, his mission - to make the world more beautiful and gentle than it is in reality. Exhibitions Nugzar Kakhiani is a matured and recognized master, as follows from the long list of his exhibitions and countries where his works reside. 1987 - Exhibition of Georgian Artists in the Museum of Ethnography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 1989 - Exhibition of Artists of Leningrad-Lenexpo, Russia 1990 - Exhibition of Van Gogh's memory, "Palette" , Russia 1991 - Exhibition Gallery Palette 1991 - Festival of Leningrad galleries in Manege, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 1992 - Exhibition at Gallery Pinatin, Berlin. 1993 - Exhibition of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. 1993 - Exhibition Gallery 47...
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2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Composition with fishes. 1976, watercolor on paper, 54x74 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Composition with fishes A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht around Sc...
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Late 20th Century Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The street. 1960s. Oil on cardboard, 27x35, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
View on the street from the top. A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht...
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1960s Realist Latvia - Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Still life in earth colors. 1986. Oil on board, 94x93 cm
By Juris Zvirbulis
Located in Riga, LV
Still life in earth colors, with dried flowers Juris Zvirbulis was born in 1944 in Riga. 1970 graduated from the Riga Secondary School of Applied Arts decorators department. 1971 Member Artists' Union of the Latvia. In 1971 First solo exhibition in the artistic and historical museum of Tukums in Latvia. In 1974 his illustrations for the A.S. Pushkin's book, "Eugene Onegin" (published Liesma) was awarded at the 7th All-Union competition of books, posters and postcards design (Moscow, USSR). Significant exhibitions: 1976 - First place in the All-Union Exhibition of Young Artists in Moscow 1983 - Solo exhibition at the Museum of Foreign Art (Riga, Latvia) 1988 - personal exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Russia) Museum bought more than 100 of the artist miniatures to collection. 1989 - Group exhibition "Contemporary Soviet Painters from Riga" Edward Nahamkina Art Gallery (New York, USA) 1990 - Group exhibition at the Astra Gallery (Chicago, USA) 1990 - 1992 - works exhibited in the Harmony Gallery (Paris, France) 1992 - Solo exhibition at Gallery Carre d'Or (Paris, France) 1993 - Solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Riga (Riga, Latvia) 1994 - Exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary at the Latvian National Art Museum, Exhibition Hall Arsenals (Riga, Latvia) 1997 - Solo exhibition at the Gallery of Riga (Riga, Latvia). In cooperation with IBM Latvia and Modo Paper released exhibition catalog. 1998 - Exhibition of watercolors - miniatures at Gallery "Nocturne", Riga 1999 - personal exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Russia) 2004 - personal exhibition at gallery "Manss" (Jekabpils, Latvia) 2005 - Group exhibition of Latvian-French festival "Amazing Latvia" (in Bourgoin-Jallieu, France). 2011 - Contemporary Art exhibition-fair at Gallery Birkenfeld ArtVilnius'11 (Vilnius, Lithuania) Group Exhibition-Fair of Lineart Contemporary Art (Ghent, Belgium). Group exhibition at the Art Museum Nerima (Tokyo, Japan) 2012 Released artist album "Retrospective". Solo exhibition "The Battle of Waterloo would have ended differently ... Dedication to Marshal L.N. Davu." At gallery Birkenfelds. The artist works in the following genres and techniques: watercolor, painting, drawing, book illustrations, murals for public interiors in Latvia and abroad. Works in museums and private collections: At the Latvian National Museum of Art, at collection of Artists' Union of Latvia, Russian Ministry of Culture (Moscow, Russia), the Pushkins` State Museum (Russia), Bank of Latvia, Džeinas Vorhīsas Cimerlī Art Museum, Radzhersa, State University of New Jersey, at collection of Norton and Nancy Dodge nonconformist art of the Soviet Union (US), Vitaly Gotlib (Latvia), and Indra Benjamin Wilson...
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1980s Naturalistic Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Nowhere. 2020. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. He works in etching, lithography and various mixed...
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2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

Road to nowhere. 2020. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Māris Abiļevs (born 23 April 1956 in Kazakhstan) is a Latvian graphic artist and printer, brother of graphic artist Andris Abiļevs. He works in etching, lithography and various mixed...
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2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

Flow. 2020. Paper, mixed media, 63x94 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The abstract series of sizable works done in a mixed-media technique pays homage to the great modernists and abstract expressionists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky, Still and Motherwell...
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2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Felt Pen, Stencil

Space. 2018. Paper, mixed media, 38x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
By using mixed media and expressive sketching techniques the artist Maris Abilevs manages to convey the atmosphere of intimacy, eroticism and arousal
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2010s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Felt Pen, Stencil

#8 (diptych), 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 17 x 26 cm; 21 x 29 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Avotins paints dark, ghostly, photorealistic images sourced from forgotten antique photographs and Soviet-era media. Rather than directly copy the ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pigeons in winter. 1999. Oil on canvas, 150x111 cm
Located in Riga, LV
How to understand Sigita Daugule's work? At the cradle of her style (emerged in late 90s) there are significant memories of the expansion of modern art ...
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1990s Contemporary Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Autumn III. 2016. acrylic on canvas, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ingrida Irbe's Autumn series capture the beauty of the season in an abstract way, focusing on the expressive dance of colors Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born ...
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2010s Modern Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Autumn I. 2016. acrylic on canvas, 40x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ingrida Irbe's Autumn series capture the beauty of the season in an abstract way, focusing on the expressive dance of colors Ingrida Irbe (1969) Born 15th of June 1969 in Riga ...
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2010s Modern Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Asters. 2004. acrylic on canvas, 40x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Impressionist technique employed by the artist focuses on the essence of flowers rather than details. The play of light and shadows creates the atmosphere of a summer day. Ingrida Irbe...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Baltic Sea. 2018, acrylic on canvas, 30x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Baltic Sea at Liepaja. 2018, acrylic on canvas, 30x40 cm Janis Zingitis born in 1973 in Riga, Latvia (then Soviet Union). Attended Janis Rozentals Riga...
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2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

It s raining like in the Midsummer. 2017, mixed media on canvas, 60x50 cm
Located in Riga, LV
It's raining like in the Midsummer. 2017, mixed media on canvas, 60x50 cm Janis Zingitis born in 1973 in Riga, Latvia (then Soviet Union). Attended Janis Rozentals...
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2010s Realist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Spring. 2004. Cardboard, author s technique, 41x31, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring. 2004. Cardboard, author's technique, 41x31,5 cm Ivars Zaikins (1942-2017) Zaikins Ivars - an artist. He was born in 1942. During of the Soviet ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Cardboard

Composition with faces. 2013. Paper, collage, 26x20 cm
By Peteris Taukulis
Located in Riga, LV
Composition with faces by Peteris Taukulis - 2013. Paper, collage, 26x20 cm
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Latvia - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

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