Nikolai Vladimirovich Remisoff

Collection of the family of the artist

The left edge of the board is uneven and there is a small section missing in the upper left corner. There are scratches to the upper left corner. There is a layer of light surface dirt and some abrasion to the edges. There are a few flecks of paint loss in places. Some pigments fluoresce under UV but there are no apparent signs of retouching. Held loosely in a painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Akim Tamiroff (1899-1972) was born in Baku, the son of a wealthy oil man, and studied under Stanislavsky in the Moscow Art Theatre. A talented young actor, he was chosen to tour with the company in Europe but decided to remain in Paris to work in Nikita Balieff's Chauve Souris revue when the tour came to an end. It was at this time that Tamiroff made the acquaintance of Russian emigré artists such as Sergei Sudeikin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Nikolai Remizoff and began collecting Russian art.
Eventually moving to America in 1932, Tamiroff became one of the most successful Russian character actors in Hollywood.