Niko Pirosmani's “Georgian Woman Wearing a Lechaki” to be put up to Sotheby’s auction

Niko Pirosmani's “Georgian Woman Wearing a Lechaki” will be put up to Sotheby’s auction on November 27.

According to the information posted on the auction’s website, the estimated cost of the painting is 500,000 to 700 000 pounds sterling.

The “Georgian Woman Wearing a Lechaki” will be sold in the Russian section, though Niko Pirosmani is mentioned as a Georgian artist on the website.

"The painting was acquired by famous Austrian author Stefan Zweig in 1928. Following Zweig’s death in 1942 the painting remained in the possession of his first wife Friderike Maria Zweig, until it was gifted to Dr Harry Zohn in 1953. Dr Zohn, founder of the International Stefan Zweig Society and friend of Friderike, donated the painting to the Zweig Room in the Reed Library at the State University College at Fredonia, New York in 1981 where it has remained until this sale”, reads the information posted on the auction’s website.