SIMON LISSIM (1900-1981) Ascent to heaven
Lotto 515
3 0005 000
Signed and dated ‘Simon Lissim 59’ (lower
right)
Mixed media, oil and gold paint on board
76.2 x 60.9 cm
Executed in 1959
Provenance:
Skinner, Boston, 20.05.2005, lot 458
Borodulin Collection
Simon Lissim is known for theatre set design,
decorative art,
china design.
Simon Lissim was born in Kiev, Ukraine at
the turn of the 19th century. He studied at
the art school of A.S. Monko as of 1917. In
1919, Lissim emigrated, and as of 1920, he
was studying at the art school of Reimann in
London and living in Wiesbaden and London.
He lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and
was closely associated with Diaghilev, Bakst,
Benois, and many others. His work is full of
Orientalist themes.
The painting is made by Simon Lissim - A
porcelain designer, illustrator, stage designer,
painter. Lissim lived in Paris, where he studied
at the French National School of Decorative
Arts, and after he worked at the famous
Theatre de L’Oeuvre in Paris. His set design
for that theatre’s 1924 production of Hamlet
won Lissim, a Silver Medal from the 1925
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts
in Paris. He designed for Lenox and Royal
Copenhagen. Simon was born in Russia and
moved to the United States in 1941. All lots marked with the symbol are under temporary importation
are subject to import tax (5.5%)