NIKOLAI REMISOFF (RUSSIAN 1887-1979)
NIKOLAI REMISOFF (RUSSIAN 1887-1979)
Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, 1930
gouache on paper
43 x 36.5 cm (16 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.) [sight]
initialed and dated lower left
LOT NOTES
Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov or RE-Mi was born in St. Petersburg in 1887. He studied under D. Kardowski at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He was then active in Kherson, Ukraine (1918-20), Paris (1920-22), New York (1922-24) and Palm Springs in the United States until his death in 1975. The artist began exhibiting already in 1909 and became the chief-artist (under the pseudonym RE-Mi) for the famous satirical magazine Satiricon, of which he was a co-founder with A. Averchenko and Sasha Chorny. Remizov also was active as a painter and graphic artist and from the late 1920s mainly a stage designer. His works are displayed at the Russian Museum.
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NIKOLAI REMISOFF (RUSSIAN 1887-1979)
Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky, 1930
gouache on paper
43 x 36.5 cm (16 7/8 x 14 3/8 in.) [sight]
initialed and dated lower left
LOT NOTES
Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov or RE-Mi was born in St. Petersburg in 1887. He studied under D. Kardowski at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He was then active in Kherson, Ukraine (1918-20), Paris (1920-22), New York (1922-24) and Palm Springs in the United States until his death in 1975. The artist began exhibiting already in 1909 and became the chief-artist (under the pseudonym RE-Mi) for the famous satirical magazine Satiricon, of which he was a co-founder with A. Averchenko and Sasha Chorny. Remizov also was active as a painter and graphic artist and from the late 1920s mainly a stage designer. His works are displayed at the Russian Museum.
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