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569 - LISSIM, Simon Costume design. Warsaw 1934 Gouache and pencil with silver and copper highlights, 23.3 x 18 cm, thick tinted wove paper, signed, numbered 31/34, and dated, mounted under a mat (mat browned, rubbed, and marginally water-stained; drawing slightly browned, in good condition, traces of mounting in the margins and on the reverse, pencil annotations on the reverse). Simon Lissim (1900–1981), a Kyiv-born painter and designer active in Paris from the early 1920s, worked as a stage and costume designer and was associated with Russian theatrical and ballet circles in France, including the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. With an autograph signed dedication by the artist to Alexis Wdziękoński (1892–1946), a Polish consular official: “[...] in memory of my stay in Warsaw [...] Warsaw, November 28, 1934.” From the collection of Alexis Wdziękoński (dedicated).

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€150 - 200

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30%

LISSIM, Simon Costume design. Warsaw 1934 Gouache and pencil with silver and copper highlights, 23.3 x 18 cm, thick tinted wove paper, signed, numbered 31/34, and dated, mounted under a mat (mat browned, rubbed, and marginally water-stained; drawing slightly browned, in good condition, traces of mounting in the margins and on the reverse, pencil annotations on the reverse). Simon Lissim (1900–1981), a Kyiv-born painter and designer active in Paris from the early 1920s, worked as a stage and costume designer and was associated with Russian theatrical and ballet circles in France, including the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. With an autograph signed dedication by the artist to Alexis Wdziękoński (1892–1946), a Polish consular official: “[...] in memory of my stay in Warsaw [...] Warsaw, November 28, 1934.” From the collection of Alexis Wdziękoński (dedicated).

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Old and rare books, literature, autographs, archives
Thursday, December 3
01:00 PM
19/2 Rue aux Laines
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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