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MARCH 2024 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 115:
Simon Lissim (Ukrainian, 1900–1981), a mixed media on board painting titled "Ascent to Heaven, " 1959. Signed and dated "Simon Lissim 59" (lower right). Framed. Bears a Skinner auction house paper labels on the backside.
Provenance: Skinner, Boston, 20.05.2005, lot 458 Borodulin Collection.
Note: Simon Lissim is known for theatre set design, decorative art, and 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. Simon Lissim lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely associated with Diaghilev, Bakst, Benois, and many others. In Paris, 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 also designed for Lenox and Royal Copenhagen. Simon moved to the United States in 1941.
30 1/4 x 24 in., (76.83 x 60.96 cm)
Condition: The painting is in good condition and the canvas shows no signs of restoration.
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