Background
He was born in a remote Georgian village Bakhvi, Guria, then part of the Russian Empire.
He was born in a remote Georgian village Bakhvi, Guria, then part of the Russian Empire.
From 1914 to 1918, he studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Together with Lado Gudiashvili and David Kakabadze, he is considered a key figure in Georgian art of the early 20th century. He stayed in his motherland for a short period of 1918-1920, and worked chiefly as a theater decorator for Jabadari Theater in Tbilisi. Afterwards he moved to Paris, where he, together with his fellow painters, Gudiashvili and Kakabadze, held an exhibition in 1921.
He died in Freiburg, Germany, on November 7, 1921.