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Nikolai Remizov (Russian, 1887 - 1975) - Nikolai Remizov (Russian, 1887 - 1975, pseudonym: Re-Mi), ”The Young Turks demanded that the Sultan dissolve the harem”, Illustration for the cover of the weekly ”Satyricon”, 1908, issue 19., mixed media on paper, 24 x 19 cm. Notes Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov (pseudonym: Re-Mi, ) was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and stage designer. He was born into an artistic family: his father, Vladimir Remizov-Vasilyev (1847–1908), was an actor, and his sister, Anna Remizova (Vasilyeva), was an artist known under the pseudonym “Miss.” From 1908 to 1917, Remizov studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Between 1908 and 1918, he was a leading caricaturist for the satirical magazines Strekoza, Satirikon, and Novy Satirikon, producing sharp political and social satire as well as caricatures of prominent figures in Russian cultural life. He was also a co-owner of Novy Satirikon, alongside Arkady Averchenko and the artist Alexei Radakov. In 1917, he illustrated Korney Chukovsky’s famous fairy tale Crocodile, notably depicting the author himself as a character—an approach later adopted in animation. Remizov also appeared, under fictionalized names, in literary works of his contemporaries: as “Mifasov” in The Satirikon Writers’ Expedition to Western Europe, and as “Gromov” in Averchenko’s novella Podkhodtsev and Two Others. After 1918, he was mentioned in several of Averchenko’s works, including the story My Old Casket from the collection Evil Spirits. Following the Russian Revolution, Remizov emigrated in 1918. From 1920 he lived in Paris, working at the advertising studio “Lubok” and collaborating with Nikita Baliev’s celebrated theater La Chauve-Souris as a stage designer. From 1922 onward, he settled in the United States. Beginning in 1939, he worked in Hollywood as a production designer, contributing as chief artist to over 35 films. Provenance https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D 0%BD._1908._%E2%84%9619.pdf