Original Charles Levier Antique Modern Woman Figure Oil Painting Vintage Cubism

  
MASTERFUL FRENCH MODERN IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY WORLD-RENOWNED AND REVERED FRENCH PAINTER CHARLES LEVIER. THIS WORK DEPICTS TWO FEMALE MODELS BRILLIANTLY RENDERED IN THE MODERNIST CUBISM STYLE. IT IS SIGNED LEVIER ON THE FRONT AND VERSO. IT DATES AROUND THE 1960s. SPECTACULAR WORK BY THE FRENCH MASTER FIGURATIVE PAINTER. MILD PAINT LOSS IS SHOWN. IT DOES NOT DETRACT FROM ITS BEAUTY IN ANY WAY. DIMENSIONS: 38"W x 22"H. Born: 1920 - Corsica, France. Known for: Landscape, still life, and figure painting.

Name variants: Charles Lever, Maurice Verrier. Throughout the world are to be found his paintings in countless private and public collections by the highly successful French painter, Charles Levier. Among those who are collectors are Mr. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Adlai Stevenson, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Prince and Princess Poniatoski, Mrs.

Dean Martin, and many others. He was born in 1920 to a French father and an American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. World War II came along, and Levier served in the French Army in North Africa, later becoming a Liaison Officer with the U.

Coming to America to live, he divided his time between the USA and France, preparing for his first one-person show, which took place at the Galerie Constantine, in Lyons in 1949, followed by an American debut in Los Angeles in 1950. The year 1955 found him exhibiting at the Galleries de Colisee in Paris and then returning to America where an old friend, Dr. Lilienfeld of Van-Diemen, Lilienfeld Gallery in New York City, began to present his paintings. Lilienfelds taste was widely respected, and his scholarship much reported since he had helped to compile and write biographies for the definitive are reference work in German, Thieme-Becker.

His personal enthusiasm for and recommendation of Leviers work was instrumental in establishing him as a significant artist and proved a most valuable introduction to innumerable collectors. For over thirty years, Levier has enjoyed an important position with countless exhibitions worldwide. Benezit, "Dictionaries des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, " vol.

He is represented in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the Menton Museum in Paris. In the USA, his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Atlanta Museum, the Seattle Museum, the Evansville Museum, the New Orleans Museum, and the San Diego Museum. Evansville Museum Of Arts, History & Science (Evansville, IN). New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA). San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA).

Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA). University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, WY). Wright Museum of Art (Beloit, WI). This item is in the category "Art\Paintings". The seller is "vintagerotty" and is located in this country: US.

This item can be shipped to United States.

1. Artist: Charles Levier
2. Unit of Sale: Single Piece
3. Signed By: Levier
4. Size: Large
5. Signed: Yes
6. Material: Canvas
7. Item Length: 38 in
8. Region of Origin: France
9. Framing: Framed
10. Subject: Women
11. Type: Painting
12. Year of Production: 1960s
13. Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
14. Item Height: 22 in
15. Style: Cubism, Figurative Art, Modernism
16. Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
17. Production Technique: Oil Painting
18. Country/Region of Manufacture: France
19. Culture: Figurative Modernism Cubism
20. Handmade: Yes
21. Item Width: 38 in
22. Time Period Produced: 1960-1969