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At Pirosmani's Table

By Bruce Allan 2012

Annie Lovejoy

Tableau vivant, Pirosmani Museum, Mirzaani, Georgia, 1998 Bruce Allan, Ian Joyce with Oleg Timchenko, Manana Dvali, Mamuka Japharidze Duration: 15 minutes At a carefully prepared table, based on the feast paintings of Niko Pirosmani, invited participants raise their glasses in a toast held for 15 minutes. The work was performed in front of Pirosmani's village house, now in the grounds of the Pirosmani Museum.

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