"Issaiev Nicolas (1891-1977) Russian school Nicolas Issaiev is a French artist born near Odessa in 1891 Ukraine. Painter, graphic designer and theater designer, Issaiev studied in Odessa and Kharkiv in the studios of V. Shuchajev and A. Yakovlev and at the Ranson Academy in Paris. He was in the army during World War I before immigrating to Belgrade in 1919 where he worked at the National Theater as a decorator. In 1925 he moved to Paris where he became know of the artistic milieu of Montparnasse by painting landscapes, still lifes and some portraits. However, he will never be integrated among the famous painters of Montparnasse like Soutine and Foujita and even less among the painters of the School of Paris of which he was however The only movement and group he managed to join was the rather obscure Czech-Belgian Circle (Krug) Group with which he exhibited many times, in Brussels, Paris and Belgrade. 40-1945, he moved to the south of France to live there alone. After the Second World War, he made frequent visits to Switzerland, Italy and Spain. Between 1945 and 1950, Issaiev produced numerous illustrations for art publishing works, in particular for publications by Pierre de Ronsard, Edgar Allan Poe and Nikolay Gogol. In the 1950s and 1960s, he exhibited in Paris at the La Boétie and A. Weil galleries as well as at the P. Bernet gallery in New York. He participated with several of his paintings in the great exhibition which took place in Paris in 1961 then in Russia in 1974 under the title Russian Artists of the School of Paris, thus finding three years before his death a beginning of recognition. The canvas is in good condition, cleaning is nevertheless to be expected.