Including works from:
Gaby and Ami Brown Collection
Sara and Ephraim Kishon Collection
The Art Collection of the Poet Nathan Zach,
Estate of Ruth Schloss,
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LOTE 554:
David Martiashvili
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Precio inicial:
$
1 200
Precio estimado :
$2 000 - $3 000
Comisión de la casa de subasta: 18%
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IVA: 17%
IVA sólo en comisión
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b. 1978
Girl on a Rocking Chair,
Oil on canvas, 110x80 cm.
Signed.
Girl in a Rocking Chair by David Martiashvili "in Rocking Chair" the very name of David Martiashvili's work evokes in the viewer a relaxed, homely and largely transcendental scene. Martiashvili's painting depicts this situation, but also adds motifs that place it in a surrealistic, legendary realm, whose hues hint at what is happening beneath the surface, which is bustling, even if it seems as simple as water and bread.
The main character, a woman, is painted in warm colors. Her long, rustic dress is patterned with red, green and purple circles and squares on a bright yellow background, but a striped pattern serves as a statement - meaning that despite the initial impression, the floral dress actually takes you into more modern realms. The woman's oval face recalls the heads of sleeping women by Constantin Brancusi, the Romanian sculptor who moved to Paris in 1904, such as "La Muse Endormie" of 1909. The comparison is interesting because Martiashvili draws on the Georgian rural aesthetic and derives from it a movement that can recall Brancusi's view of the Romanian rural aesthetic as a source from which he developed a refined modernist line.
Sleep, the dream state, and especially that of women, was a recurring theme in Surrealism - artists such as Dali, Paul Delvaux and Max Ernst all painted figures of sleeping women.
Here, the sleeping woman, cradled in a rocking chair, seems to be on an inner journey into the depths of consciousness, but is also vulnerable.
Martiashvili's Sleeping Beauty is surrounded by signs suggesting that the time for sleep is limited:
To her left is a candlestick with three extinguished candles and a clock whose hands point to nine o'clock. Is it day or night? It is unclear. What reinforces the surrealist context of this seemingly innocent work is the bird, the parrot, standing on the back of the rocking chair, free to fly. A bird in a cage is a motif that often appears in art alongside female figures. It represents the situation of women imprisoned in the cage of laws and social conventions that confine them to the home library. Here the bird stands next to the sleeping woman and can be seen as the embodiment of the "bird soul" , the inwardness, the consciousness, the freedom that sleep allows.
The bird looks outside the painting, alluding to other places.
Martiashvili has thus created a painting that can be read on several levels: on the surface, peace and tranquility, and underneath, a ticking clock and the possibility for the figure in the painting to break free, at least on a conscious level, from the space in which it is located.
Smadar Sheffi, PhD
