Harbour Scene

JOSEPH LEVIN (1894-1979) 
HARBOUR SCENE 
 
Levin was born in Russia into a Jewish family. In 1910 he became a student of St. Petersburg Imperial Academy. His teachers were well-known Russian painters Rerberg, Mashkov, Navozov and Khimona. After 1913, he ventured on a study trip to Paris followed by a sojourn in New York where is attended the National Academy of Design.
 
After the February Revolution (1917) he returned to St. Petersburg, where he resumed lessons with his old professor Rerberg living between Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and Moscow. In 1923 Levin returned to Moscow and drawn by possibilities of Cubism and L'Ecole de Paris (The School of Paris), Levin moved to Paris in 1926. In 1935, the artist emigrated to the USA attracted by the thriving art world of New York City. He opened his own studio in Greenwich Village.
 
Widely exhibited in Paris, Russia, Cuba, Rome and USA. Levin moved to Provence where he died in 1979.
 
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 61cm x 91.5cm canvas, 78 x 108cm framed approx.
Condition: Some damage, a 2.5cm T-shaped tear to the canvas. Please see images.
 
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