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LISSIM, Simon (1900-1981). View of Venice.

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Gouache on board (745 x 590 mm). Signed and dated 1959 lower right. Framed. Lissim began his career in theater design at the Kiev state Theater, where he met the influential painter and designer Alexandra Exter. He immigrated to Germany in 1919, and by 1921 had settled in Paris. At this time he began working at the Russian art publishing house of A. Kogan where he met such important artists as Soudeikine, Benois and Bakst. In addition to his work in the theater, Lissim published articles on Bakst and on questions of the decorative arts in the theater and edited the international art journal Revue de l'oeuvre (1923-1925). In 1941 he immigrated to New York, where he taught a long-running course in stage design at the City College of New York (1944-1971).

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