Adessa-Gallery began collecting art in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia in 1993. Since then we have amassed hundreds of original pieces of Social Realism, Russian Impressionist, Chinese Revolutionary Romanticism and Vietnamese War art in places like Hanoi, Tashkent, Batumi, Beijing, Yan’an, and Kiev.

We are currently in the process of putting our entire collection online but begin with the oil portraits and studies of Chinese artist Jin Zhilin. Jin was trained in oils by Xu Beihong and later taught along side the Soviet painter Constantine Maksimov at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Jin’s masterpieces hung in the National and Military Museums but the politics of the Cultural Revolution forced Jin to hide his paintings, many of his smaller pieces like those shown here were actually hid underneath the floorboards of his studio in Beijing while he languished away in a labor reform camp.

We look forward to posting our additional collections shortly. Thanks again for perusing our gallery and we hope to hear from you.