The most extensive collection of Georgian modernist painting is also presented here. Among more than a hundred works by Petre Otskheli, such important sketches as: “The Builder Solness” (1931), “The Dumb Men Spoke” (1931), “The Good Soldier Schweik” (1931), “Joy Street” (1932), “Bombay” (1932), “The Robbers” (1932), “Othello” (1933) are also kept here. Unique sketches for the film “The Flying Painter” (1936), designed by the same author, are also kept here.

The fund also preserves the portrait of the world-famous primitivist Niko Pirosmanashvili, “Smoking Man,” works by such famous representatives of Georgian realistic painting as: Gigo Gabashvili, Aleksandre Beridze. Brilliant canvases or sketches by outstanding members of the new Georgian painting: Shalva Kikodze, Davit Kakabadze, Sergo Kobuladze, Lado Gudiashvili and others.

Of Russian painting, the works of Mikhail Nesterov’s “Landscape by the Lake,” Konstantin Somov’s “Curtain of the Free Theater,” Alexander Benois, the founder and main ideologist of “Mir Iskustva,” the artist Leon Bakst, the director Sergei Eisenstein, and others are noteworthy.

Our Collections

Memorial and Art Works Fund

Photo and Photo Negatives Fund

Fine Arts Fund

Poster Fund

Museum of Georgian Folk Songs and Instruments

Music Fund

Library and Rare Publications Fund

Manuscript Fund

Museum of Folk and Applied Arts