Description

This is the largest of three abstract works on paper by the fascinating artist Joseph Levin.  This can stand alone or be hung with the other two to make a striking combination.

Details

• Joseph Levin (Russian/American, 1894-1979)
• Untitled 
• Ink and gouache on paper
  
• Signed in lower left hand corner
  
• 17" x 23" (overall) framed in a silver finished wooden frame, under glass
• Even toning to paper

About the Artist

Joseph Levin, born in St Petersburg in 1894, was fortunate to spend his most artistically productive years in the cultural capitals of Moscow, New York and Paris, where he studied with and was influenced by the Russian avant grade artists Mikhail Larionov and Kazimir Malevich, New York abstract expressionists Mark Rothko and Adolf Gottlieb, and School of Paris painters Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet.  He also traveled to China in the the early twenties and developed an interest in calligraphy which influenced his later work.  One of the most profound influences on his life, however, was the revered Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, who was introduced to Levin by Levin's older brother Vaniamin.  Legend has it that after the death of Yesenin it was Levin who watched over the poet's body during the transport to Moscow.  Portraits he drew of the journey were later displayed in the city's Literature Museum. From 1950 to 1967, Levin exhibited his paintings in Paris, London, Amsterdam and several American cities. In 1970 he settled permanently in Paris and died in southern France in 1979.