Untitled “Abstract Composition”, ca. 1920, ca. 1920
Signed in right lower in Cyrillic “К.З” (K.Z) Provenance: - Acquired from the artist by Dmitry Petrovich Gordeev and Alexey Petrovich Keller, Moscow (later Tbilisi). - Purchased from above by Mr. & Mrs. S. I Natsubidze, Tbilisi before 1979 -Inherited from above by Nina Solomonovna Natsubidze, Tbilisi. - Acquired from above by Marina and Nikolay Shchukin by 2012. Notes on Collections: Dmitry Petrovich Gordeev (1889 – 1968) was the son of the scientist and public figure P. A. Gordeev, his brother Bojidar was a poet. Gordeev was an archeologist, specialist in Caucasian and Byzantine, Middle Asian art; an artist, he was the student of F. I. Shmit, born in Kharkov. From 1910- 1920, he was close to the avant-garde literary and art circles in Moscow and joined the group of “Futurists” as a member. He became their chronicler (see his publication Tbilisi, 1918). He was arrested and judged during the artistic purges in autumn 1933, and later exiled to Tbilisi in 1943 where he worked as a research associate and later Chief of the Department of Russian Art at the museum in Tbilisi until 1979. Alexandra Vladimirovna Natsubidze was an employee of the Tbilisi Museum beginning in 1959 and from 1965 until her death led the department of Russian Art. Dmitry Petrovich Gordeev was her employee, from whom she purchased many works of the Russian Avant-Garde over the years to help support him financially. Exhibition: - July-August, 2014, “Summer show”, New York.