Phaeton by the canteen

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Year: 1916
Medium: Unknown
Current location: Unknown
Work type: Tbilisi street life
Theme: Travel, Railways, and Modernity

phaetoncanteenpirosmani

Description

A phaeton waits near a canteen or roadside stop.

Cultural Note

Pirosmani worked for the railway from 1890 - 1893, which makes public transport a uniquely recurring theme in his paintings. Train in Kakheti and The Tiflis Funicular show Georgia as a modernised, technologically developing country, rather than outside modernity.