Gennadi Lakoba Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1948 -

Gennadi Lakoba was born at the of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, in the capital of Abkhazia Suchum, in 1948. In 1974 he was graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Department of Sculpture (Georgien) and later took a course of probation at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad (Russia).
He was lucky to learn from the master of drawing Vasili Shukhayev. A great influence exerted on him a known sculptor and instructor Zurab Tsintsabadze. A lot for the formation or his artistic outlook gave communication with the Russian artist Varvara Bubnova dnd master Pyotr Kulchitski, a close friend of Pavel Filonov, whose life was closely connected with Abkhazia.


The works of the artist are contained in the collection of the State Picture Gallery of Sukhum (Abkhazia), in the State Art Museum of Tbilisi, they are represented in private collections of Germany, Spain, Italy, Croatia, the USA and Belgium.

Member of the Artists' Union of the USSR since 1976.
Member of the UNESCO Cultural Association.
Member of the Artists' Union of Abkhazia
Merited Artist of Abkhazia.
Member of the Artists' Union of Belarus
Repeated participant of republican, union-wide and international exhibitions in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Hamburg, Berlin, M?nich, Hannover, Athens, the USA.


Gennadi Lakoba is the name in modern art which I hope will with dignity represent our time among the other generations. He is a serious artist creating not “goods” but “works”. Possessing a powerful innate gift Gennadi Lakoba also uses in his creative work huge stock of cultural and artistic erudition which enables him to seek himself in various creative directions and to create his own unique stile while learning from the masters of the past.


I haven't seen an artist who would be talented to such an extent and obviously predestined for decoration of big public buildibgs, majestic walls and structures, and moreover in the most orginal and impressive system of artistic images.
Unfortunately, the fortune hasn't yet turned to him with this side. But I still hope and believe that the people and the countries will appear where whre Gennadi Lakoba would be able to create his images implying heroic courage, the spirit of power and beauty.