Avto Varazi occupies a special place in Georgian painting of the 20th century.
Religious motifs also took a significant role in Varazi’s work, which was quite unusual for a painter of the Soviet period.
His teacher was a Soviet Georgian artist, graphic designer and sculptor Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan.
Varazi’s works are spread among world museums, while the fate of some of them remains unknown.
The other Bull's Head remains with Alexander Glezer in Paris, and The Octopus is in George Costakis' private collection in Greece.