For many years, this work is in collections of the famous French poet Louis Aragon (1897-1982). By slsluchayu its 60 th anniversary, it was donated Aragona Soviet government in 1957. Wife of Aragon was the well-known writer Elsa Triolet, the sister Lili Brik. Continued muse Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and the wife of the critic and poet Osip Brik, Lilya Brik has helped many beginning talents and was familiar with the key figures of Russian and European culture. "Arsenalskaya mountain at night" was acquired through Lili Brik, most likely Kirill Zdanevich. Brik was a big fan of creativity Pirosmani, and even to collect materials about him, including photos, etc.
Because the painting was in need of restoration, at first she was in the Moscow home, where Brick lived with her second husband, writer Vasily Katanyanom, and later was moved into the apartment of Aragon in Paris. Before Zdanevich painting belonged Bayadze, the owner of the inn in Tiflis. In 1920, the poet Kola Cherniavsky found now in the area of Tiflis, which was located this tavern.
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Its wonderful animals ...
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Here's what he wrote about the art Pirosmani Erast Davidovich Kuznetsov:
"More than a quarter of the extant paintings Pirosmanashvili - pictures of animals, and he himself used to say:" I love to paint animals. They are friends of my heart ... "But do not turn the language to call it animalist, and we do not care that the proportion of animals had all too often inaccurate, that the white bear was written with him in the thickets of corn, and a giraffe, not yellow, and silver-gray color. In all these pictures it is not so much about animals and birds, but about people.
Not surprisingly, most of all, he wrote to those in whom he could express his ideals, to convey his understanding of beauty and harmonious people, living with dignity - not defile nor evil, neither guile nor greed land on which he lives: the noble and proud of deer, the wise and stronger than lions, gentle and meek deer. Another favorite of his hero - "Paschal lamb" - the embodiment of pure and innocent creature, doomed to destruction, and going toward death, though unable to resist the inexorable and cruel fate. And the famous "Giraffe", which stands in the middle of a mysterious bare plains, looking at us with sadness and horror, became a kind of self-portrait, a mirror of his agitated soul. "
How deep is not it?