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"Paris Square"

Creator: Charles Levier
Offered by: Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art

Description
Captivating oil paint on heavy fiberboard by the well known American artist, Charles Levier. Signed by the artist lower right. Condition is very good. The painting depicts a Parisian square in a stark winter scene with several figures walking amongst the large building at leafless trees.
The painting is framed in its original matte black frame with silver reveal and off white linen liner.
Overall framed measurements are 51 by 37
inches. Provenance: A Brooklyn, New York collector.

Charles Levier (1920-2003)
Born in 1920 of a French father and 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 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. 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.

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. Charles Levier died on September 3rd of 2003.
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More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States, New York
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Oil paint on fiberboard
Condition:	Very good
Creation Date:	Circa 1960
Styles / Movements:	Modernism, Contemporary
Incollect Reference #:	734502

Dimensions

W.	30 in;	H.	44 in;	D.	1.25 in;
W.	76.2 cm;	H.	111.76 cm;	D.	3.18 cm;

Message from Seller:

Arthur T. Kalaher Fine Art, located in Southampton, NY, offers a curated selection of traditional and contemporary works, including pieces by the Peconic Bay Impressionists and the estate of Nahum Tschacbasov. For inquiries, contact 631.204.0383 or visit arthurkalaherfineart.com.

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