Costume design. Gouache and pencil with silver and copper hi…

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Costume design. Gouache and pencil with silver and copper highlights, 23,3 x 18 cm, thick tinted wove paper, signed, numbered 31/34 and dated, mounted under passe-partout (passe-partout browned, rubbed and marginally water-stained; drawing sl. browned, in good condition, traces of mounting in the margins and on verso, pencil annotations on verso). - Simon Lissim (1900-1981), a Kyiv-born painter and designer active in Paris from the early 1920s, worked as a stage and costume designer and was associated with the Russian theatrical and ballet circles in France, including the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. With aut. s. dedication by the artist to Alexis Wdziękoński (1892–1946), a Polish consular official : "[... ] en souvenir de mon séjour à Varsovie [...] Varsovie le 28.XI.34". - Prov. Alexis Wdziękoński (ded.).