Charles Levier Bouquet of Flowers Oil Painting in the Manner of Bernard Buffet
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This wonderful mid-century modern painting is a fine example of Levier's work and is in very good original condition. Painted on board, it has very vivid colors throughout with strokes very similar to those of Bernard Buffet.
Measures: Depth 2.50 in. x Width 22.63 in. x Height 29.50 in.
Charles Levier was born on January 26, 1920, in Corsica. He was the son of a French father and an American mother. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age 17, to the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris 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. Paintings by Levier can be found in countless private and public collections. Among those collectors are Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Adlai Stevenson, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Prince and Princess Poniatowski, Mrs. Dan Topping, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Martin and many others.
Levier died in 2003.
Charles Levier
1920–2003, Corsica, Paris and the United States
- Training
- École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
- First show
- Galerie Constantine, Lyon, 1949
- Subjects
- Landscape, still life, figures
- Collections
- Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris · Musée de Menton
This piece is offered in the manner of Charles Levier. What follows is about the maker whose work it follows, not a statement that it left their hand.
Charles Levier was born in Corsica in 1920 to a French father and an American mother, and went at seventeen to the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He served with the French army in North Africa during the Second World War and later as liaison officer with the American Office of Strategic Services.
His first one-man show opened at the Galerie Constantine in Lyon in 1949, his American debut in Los Angeles the year after, and he divided the rest of his working life between France and the United States. He painted landscape, still life and figures. Work by him is held by the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris and the museum at Menton.
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