IGOR TERENTIEV (RUSSIAN 1892-1941) Kinto [Georgian Trader], 1920s watercolor on paperboard 51 x 34.5 cm (14 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.)
LOT NOTES Igor Gerasimovich Terentiev was a Russian poet, artist, stage director, and a representative of the Russian avant-garde. He studied under Gurdjieff in Tiflis and worked in the Museum of Art Culture with K. Malevich, M. Matyushin and P. Filonov. A member of the Russian Futurist Movement, together with Vasilli Kamenski, Alexei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov and with the brothers Zdanevich, he moved to Tiflis, Georgia where they founded the organization 41 Degrees. The Futurist art of 1917-1919 became one of the most important artistic events in Tiflis` cultural life. The Futurist brochures of that period are art objects and present an example of the intercultural, international cooperation of artists and poets.
A kinto was a trader or an unemployed person mostly occupied in stealing or entertaining others in dukhans (restaurant), popular in Tiflis during the 19th century and early 20th century.
