Alexei Ivanovich Vepkhvadze (1921 - 1982)

Alexei Ivanovich Vepkhvadze

Alexei Ivanovich Vepkhvadze (Russian: Алексей Иванович Вепхвадзе) was a Soviet and Georgian artist of the second half of the twentieth century. He is known as a graphic artist, painter, poster artist, Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR.

Alexei Vepkhvadze worked in a variety of genres, including historical and genre painting, portraits and book graphics. He was a recipient of the Stalin Prize of the third degree. Among his most famous works are "Portrait of a Wife", "Bagration's Wounding", "Portrait of Mother", "Vazha-Pshavela", "Stalin's Expulsion from Batum in 1903", and "Shota Rustaveli Reading His Poem".