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Late 19th early 20th century painting
A symbolist oil on canvas measuring 93X63 cm representing a lake circa 1910 signed lower left by Michel Simonidy (1872-1933)
Michel Simonidy, known under the pseudonym Sim, born Mihail Simonidi on March 6, 1872 in Bucharest and died on February 7, 1933 in Paris, is a Romanian painter, illustrator, decorator and poster designer, one of the representatives of Art Nouveau.
Michel Simonidy comes from a Greek family established in Muntenia. Born in 1870, he was baptized with a Greek name, Menelaus, but was called by a Romanian first name, Mihail, then after he settled in Paris, he Frenchified his first name to Michel.
Simonidy favors refined, symbolist images, with a penchant for allegory.
Painter of genre and nudes, he was a student of Léon Bonnat, Ferdinand Humbert and Gabriel Ferrier. He appeared at the Paris Exhibitions, received an honorable mention at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He exhibited at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1908 to 1912 .
Poster designer, he composed among others for Braun Clément et Cie photographers, La Bourboule and Le Figaro (series), Sarah Bernhardt in Théodora (Victorien Sardou).
He is a friend of the poster artist Pal and the painter Désiré Lucas. Part of his workshop was sold at auction at the Hôtel Drouot on March 3, 2004.
