CLAUDE MARKS (1916-1991) was an artist, stage designer, writer and lecturer. He was born in London and studied painting and stage design in Paris, Fontainebleau and Salzburg. His work has been exhibited regularly in New York and London, and examples can be found in New York's Metropolitan Museum (where he was a longtime lecturer on art), the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, the Detroit Institute of Art, and in many private collections. He died in New York where he had lived for many years.