LARGE CHARLES LEVIER FRENCH ANTIQUE MODERN STILL LIFE ABSTRACT OIL PAINTING 1959

Description: MONUMENTAL ANTIQUE FRENCH STILL LIFE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY REVERED FRENCH MASTER CHARLES LEVIER. (French 1920-2003). THIS WORK DEPICTS A DIMENSIONAL TABLEWARE SCENE BRILLIANTLY RENDERED IN THE MODERNIST CUBIST STYLE. LEVIER’S OFTEN BLENDS REALISM WITH A TOUCH OF ABSTRACTION, CAPTURING THE TEXTURES AND COLORS OF THE OBJECTS IN A RICH AND EXPRESSIVE MANNER. LEVIER’S WORKS ARE NOTABLE FOR HIS SOPHISTICATED COLOR PALETTE AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL, AS WELL AS HIS ABILITY TO EVOKE A SENSE OF ATMOSPHERE AND MOOD THROUGH HIS COMPOSITIONS AS SHOWN HERE IN THIS BEAUTY. A TRUE MASTERPIECE. SIGNED AND DATED 1959 BY CHARLES LEVIER ON THE FRONT AND VERSO. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. MILD SCRATCHES TO THE FRAME. DIMENSIONS INCLUDING THE FRAME: 30” H x 60” W PROVENANCE: PRIVATE ESTATE, BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA. Charles Levier (1920 - 2003) was active/lived in New York, California / United Kingdom, France. Charles Levier is known for Landscape, still life, and figure painting. Charles Levier, aka Maurice Verrier (1920-2004) Throughout the world are to be found his paintings in countless private and public collections by the highly successful French painter Charles Levier. Among collectors are Mr. And Mrs. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Adlai Stevenson, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Prince and Princess Poniatoski, Mrs. Dan Topping, Mr. And 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.S. Office of Strategic Services. Coming to America to live, he divided his time between the USA and France, preparing for his first one-man 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. Dr. Lilienfeld's 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 enthusiasm for and recommendation of Levier's work was instrumental in establishing him as a significant artist and proved a valuable introduction to innumerable collectors. For over thirty years, Levier has enjoyed an important position with countless exhibitions worldwide. E. Benezit, "Dictionnaries des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs," vol. 6, page 630. 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. Museums: Atlanta Museum (Atlanta, GA) 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, W

Price: 6500 USD

Location: Pasadena, California

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