Evreinov, Nikolai (1879-1953); ??????? ?????????? ????????; Simon Lissim (1900-1981), provenance — Le Théatre Dans la Vie. First Edition. Signed

Paris: Librairie Stock, 1930. 8vo. Original wraps, repaired 12 x 18.5cm. 238pp.Presentation copy to Lissim in 1930. Simon Lissim: Born Kiev, Russia (now Kyiv, Ukraine) 1900-died FL 1981: A painter, designer, illustrator, ceramist, stage designer, and art educator, Lissim is considered a master. His works were exhibited in Europe and America in an almost continuous series of one-man shows. They have been included in the permanent collections of many museums all around the world. In the Paris of the 1920s-1930s, he was a notable figure, closely involved with the circle of the Russian theatre world, with Diaghilev, Baliev, Bakst, Benois, and many others. He settled in New York City in 1941, where he launched into another important activity, that of art education. He was appointed in 1942 head of the Art Education Project in the New York Public Library and crowned this aspect of his career by becoming in due course Professor of Art at the City College of the City University of New York. But educational work did not deter him from continuing with his creative work, and indeed some of his finest design work and paintings were executed during these years: gold and silver designs, ceramic designs, and an outstanding series of gouaches. In 1960 Simon Lissim was elected a vice-president of the British Royal Society of Arts. He was the first foreigner ever to be named an officer of the 206-year-old Society. .