Sergo Kobuladze

The years spent in Moscow and Leningrad in the early 1930s had a great impact on the artist's professional development.

After many years of work, in 1961 he completed the iconic painted stage curtain (170 sq.

According to available documentary material, a compositional illustration based on the theme of Zakaria Paliashvili's opera Absalom and Eteri was placed on the curtain during the first stage.

The remaining space was devoted to a portion of an enormous, bulky and rather rigid carpet-patterned curtain.

The artist later changed his mind and replaced the narrative compositional element with the image of a mythical character.