NIKOLAI REMIZOV (RUSSIAN 1887-1979) Portrait of the Actor Leonid Kinskey, 1954 oil on canvas 61 x 41.5 cm (24 x 16 1/4 in.) signed and dated upper right
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.