Mid-Century Modern Charles Levier Painting of French Port Scene With Boats

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Iconic French Port Scene with boats and small shops., newly custom framed.

Frame size is 30"x x 26"h x 2" … more Iconic French Port Scene with boats and small shops., newly custom framed.

Frame size is 30"x x 26"h x 2" deep.
Canvas size is 24 x 20
Image 23.5 x 19.5

Artist Charles Levier aka Maurice Verrier 1920-2003 In 1963 Charles was on the television show "To tell the Truth" Which educated Americans of his artistic ability available to them However the Rat Pack were already aware of his artistic ability and were already scooping up Leviers works.

Charles Levier French Artist: b. 1920-2003: Charles Levier, aka Maurice Verrier, was born in 1920 of 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 broke out and Levier served in the French army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strate.gic Services. Coming to America to live, Levier divided his time between the United States and France. Leviers' first one-man show took place at the Galerie Constantine in Lyons in 1949, followed by an American debut in Los Angeles in 1950. In 1955, he came to the attention of Dr. Lilienfeld of Van-Diemen, Lilienfeld Gallery in New York City. Dr. Lilienfeld was widely respected, and his personal enthusiasm of Levier's work was instrumental in establishing him as a significant artist and proved a most valuable introduction to numerous collectors. Levier is first and foremost a figurative painter, dramatic and expressionistic, definitive yet seductive, yet always subtle with carefully considered colors. less