Charles Levier, French/American 1920-2004 ‘By the Sea, Brittany’
30 x 40 in. oil on canvas, signed, inscribed verso. Asking Price $ 3,950.
Charles Levier 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. His first show took place at the Galerie Constantine, in Lyons in 1949, followed by Los Angeles in 1950. The year 1955 found him exhibiting at the Galleries de Colisee in and the Lilienfeld Gallery in New York City. Charles Levier 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.
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