vasily shukhaev

B. 1887, Moscow, Russia.

D. 1973, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Education:

1897 - 1905       Stroganov Central Imperial School of Industrial Art, Moscow, Russia.

1912                 Higher Art School of the Imperial Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Solo Exhibitions:

1921                 Galerie Barbazanges, Paris, France.

1929                 Galerie d’Art Kodak, Brussels, Belgium.

                  Macquarie Galleries, Sydney, Australia.

                   Galerie Vladimir Girchman, Paris, France.

1936                 Russian Union of Fine Arts Workers Cooperatives, Moscow, Russia.

                  Exhibition hall of the Academy of Arts, Leningrad, Russia.

1954                 Georgian USSR Union of Artists, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1958                 USSR Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia.

1962                 The National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1963                 Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (LOSKH), Leningrad, Russia.

1968                 Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1977                 State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, Russia.

1978                 Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1987                 Regional Art Museum, Donetsk, Ukraine.

1988                 State Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia.

                  Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia.

                  The National Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia.

2008                 Kopala Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2014                 Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.

Group Exhibitions:

1960                 Participant of the various union and international exhibitions.

2007                 ‘Elene Akhvlediani and Vasily Shukhaev,’ Elene Akhvlediani House-Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2008                 ‘The XX Century – Starting Space,’ Georgian Modernism from Private Collections, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2010                 ‘The Twentieth Century Georgian Painting from the Private Collections and Contemporary Artists,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi

Georgia.

2017                 ‘Rarity,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2018                 ‘Collector,’ Silk Factory Studio, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2019                 ‘Expo 1919–2019,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2020                 ‘Kirill Zdanevich and His Era,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2020, 2021        ‘Art Expo XX-XXI.’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2021- 2022        ‘Elene Akhvlediani and Her Era,’ Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Achievements:

1912   Traveled around Italy with Alexander Yakovlev. They visited Capri and worked on the double self-portrait ‘Harlequin and Pierrot.’

1918   He was appointed as a professor of painting at the former Petersburg Academy of Arts.

1921  Lived and worked in the Finnish villages of Mustamäki and Raivola. 

           Served on the organizing committee of a World of Art exhibition in Paris.

  Together with A. Yakovlev opened a school of drawing and painting.

   Along with other artists, did set design for skits at Nikita Balieff’s ‘La Chauve-Souris’ (‘The Bat’) cabaret in Paris.

1922 Did scenography productions at the Balaganchik Theatre in Paris. Worked on illustrations for an edition of Pushkin’s short story

‘The Queen of Spades.’

1925 Did the stage design for productions of Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Queen of Spades’ by the Russian private opera in

Paris. Worked on illustrations for an edition of Pushkin’s ‘Boris Godunov.’ Shukhaev and Yakovlev produced frescoes on the

subject of Alexander Pushkin’s tales in music for the concert hall in the Parisian suburban house of Prince Felix Yusupov.

Designes costumes for the film ‘Carmen.’

1926     He taught at the Russian Art and Industrial Institute in Paris.

1930     Shukhaev and Yakovlev painted a fresco in the Godard house in Paris.

1932    Worked in Morocco and designed a pasha villa in Casablanca and a hotel in Rabat; made 37 sketch paintings on Moroccan motifs.

              Based on these sketches, he made a series of works on Morocco in the 1960s.

1934    Painted portraits of Igor Stravinsky, Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Prokofiev, and Lina Prokofieva. Shukhaev and Yakovthe stage design 

             for the production of ‘Semiramis’ by Ida Rubinstein’s ballet company in Paris. Worked as a cartoonist for the first time,

             producing caricatures of European politicians, writers, and public figures for Vanity Fair.

1935   Returned to the Soviet Union. He was admitted to ‘Vsekokhudoznik’ (Russian Union of Fine Arts Workers Cooperatives) and the

            Leningrad and Moscow branches of the Union of Soviet Artists. He worked as a teacher, theatre production designer,

            and book illustrator.

1940   He and his wife were arrested and exiled to Magadan. For three years, he worked as a woodcutter. Later, he decorated the Gorky

            House of Culture, later known as the Gorky Music and Drama Theatre, in Magadan.

1947   Moved to Tbilisi at the invitation of the Griboedov Russian Drama Theater to do the stage design for Alexei Arbuzov’s comedy

            ‘Encounter with Youth.’

1948   Worked for the Paliashvili Opera and Ballet Theatre and the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi.

             He was appointed as a professor of drawing at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

2007    The highest auction price - 1,807,176 USD. Christie’s, London, Great Britain.

Awards and Honors:

1947, 1948        Laureate of State Prize.

1964                 National Artist of Georgia.

1976                 Shota Rustaveli State Prize Laureate.

VASILY SHUKHAEV IN TBILISI
1961