{"id":9835,"date":"2022-09-20T05:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/?post_type=cpt_portfolio&#038;p=9835"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T09:32:02","slug":"shervashidze-alexander","status":"publish","type":"cpt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/art.gov.ge\/en\/portfolio\/shervashidze-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Shervashidze Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9835\" class=\"elementor elementor-9835\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6a8dda8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6a8dda8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-76cc7de sc_inner_width_none sc_content_align_inherit sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left\" data-id=\"76cc7de\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-daa0bf8 animation_type_block sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"daa0bf8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.8.0 - 30-10-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Alexander Shervashidze &#8211;<\/strong><strong data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"259\">scenographer, painter, book illustrator and designer, art critic, and public figure.<\/strong><\/p><p>On his father\u2019s side he was a descendant of the Shervashidze princely house, the grandson of the last ruler of Abkhazia, Prince Giorgi Shervashidze; on his mother\u2019s side \u2013 French.<br data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"444\" \/>In St. Petersburg, he took part in the theatrical experiments of Vsevolod Meyerhold and Nikolai Evreinov, and worked alongside Sergei Diaghilev during the productions of the \u201cRussian Ballet.\u201d Contemporary theatrical criticism maintains that the artistic quality of these productions was largely determined by Shervashidze\u2019s scenography. His writings on French art are still considered relevant. One of the most famous figures of twentieth-century ballet \u2013 dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar \u2013 described him in 1972 as \u201ca participant in the theatrical-artistic revolution of the West.\u201d Salvador Dal\u00ed called him \u201ca true representative of European aristocracy.\u201d Friends referred to him as a nobleman, a prince.<br data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1156\" \/>At the end of the 1910s, during a short stay on his ancestral estate in Abkhazia, he devoted his efforts to the education of youth and children and to establishing a theatre in Sokhumi. In his will, he bequeathed his creative legacy \u2013 more than 500 works, which he signed in Georgian-Abkhaz as Shervashidze\u2013Chachba \u2013 to his homeland: Sokhumi, Abkhazia, Georgia.<\/p><p data-start=\"1519\" data-end=\"1827\">From 1906 he lived in St. Petersburg, marking the beginning of his career as a theatre artist and scenographer, initially linked with the experimental \u201cNew Theatre,\u201d with Meyerhold, later Evreinov, and Diaghilev. In St. Petersburg, Shervashidze headed one of the imperial workshops for theatrical decoration.<\/p><p data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"2440\">In 1918 Shervashidze returned to his homeland, to Sokhumi. Here began his work as a public figure: he participated actively in the activities of the Sokhumi Artistic Society; established theatrical courses where he taught together with V. Kamensky and N. Evreinov, who were in Sokhumi at the time; staged several productions with his students; founded a children\u2019s studio in the building of the Sokhumi Women\u2019s Gymnasium; led a drawing circle; and delivered lectures on art in cities across Georgia and the South Caucasus. He also carried out educational work and, for this purpose, corresponded with Niko Marr.<\/p><p data-start=\"2442\" data-end=\"2877\">Because of the political situation, Shervashidze was forced to leave first for Batumi and then for Crimea \u2013 Feodosia \u2013 where his children and former wife lived. There he received an invitation from Sergei Diaghilev, who at that time was directing the second enterprise of the \u201cRussian Ballet\u201d at London\u2019s Covent Garden. In 1920 Shervashidze, together with his wife N. Butkovskaya, departed once again for Europe, this time permanently.<\/p><p data-start=\"2879\" data-end=\"3655\">In London, Paris, and New York he mainly worked with Diaghilev\u2019s company (first with Diaghilev himself from 1920\u20131929, and later with his followers from 1929\u20131948), but continued to create easel works as well \u2013 portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.<br data-start=\"3129\" data-end=\"3132\" \/>In Paris he befriended Pablo Picasso, Andr\u00e9 Derain, Georges Braque, and Jean Rouault; their participation in the productions of the \u201cRussian Ballet\u201d was also a result of this friendship. The scenic realization of their sketches was carried out with Shervashidze\u2019s direct involvement and supervision. In 1924 Shervashidze painted the stage curtain for Darius Milhaud\u2019s <em data-start=\"3500\" data-end=\"3515\">Le Train Bleu<\/em>, based on Picasso\u2019s <em data-start=\"3536\" data-end=\"3571\">The Running Women on the Seashore<\/em>. The 134-m\u00b2 curtain is preserved today in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum.<\/p><p data-start=\"3657\" data-end=\"3892\">During these years he created numerous set and costume designs for choreographic performances staged in various cities across Europe and America. Alongside his many scenographic and easel works, Shervashidze also worked in book design.<\/p><p data-start=\"3894\" data-end=\"4061\">Shervashidze died in 1968 in Monaco, at a retirement home. He was buried in Nice, in the Russian cemetery. 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