June 16th, 2026 at 2:00 PM
75009 PARIS - France
June 16th, 2026 at 2:00 PM
75009 PARIS - France
Terms of sale
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ART FROM EASTERN EUROPE
- Icons, Paintings, Enamelled Objects & Books
- Group of works by Georges Annenkov (1889-1974)
- Atelier Léon LEVKOVITCH (1936-2025) Sculptures, drawings & paintings
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Of Polish origin, Léon LEVKOVITCH (1936-2025) graduated in 1960 from the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź, in the studio of Zdzisław Glowacki. From 1961, he began his career as an artist in earnest, choosing to move to France. He became part of a form of Jewish expressionism that was now well established in Europe, producing
He produced powerful landscapes and portraits in oil on canvas and Indian ink and gouache on paper. During these years, the young painter met Ossip Zadkine, Zoran Music and Josef Czapski. He had his first solo exhibition in 1969 at the Abel Rosemberg gallery in Paris, which specialised in what contemporaries were already describing as the New School of Paris. At this point, more singular and intimate compositions emerged: the figures began to pile up and intertwine; the white highlights blurred the colours and the thicker material allowed the contours to be carved out. The artist's sculptor's soul comes to life.
In 1970, once he had completed his studies at the lithography workshop of the Paris Fine Arts School, he travelled every year for over 30 years to the famous Pietrasanta foundries in Italy. There, he produced terracotta and bronze works, largely inspired by the myths and buildings of Antiquity. In a 2006 interview with André Wawrenczak, he spoke of his fascination with the Etruscan dynasty of the Tarquins, the Great Sphinx of Egypt and the collar bones on the capitals of the Parthenon. By combining all these forms, he has created a unique bestiary that questions man's relationship with his roots. From his tiny proofs to the oversized terraces of his large sculptures, faces, zoomorphic figures and ruined colonnades come to life and intertwine. It's a world in fusion, on the cusp of creation, between chaos and harmony: life bubbles up, but the form is not definitive.
As well as showing his work in Parisian galleries such as Galerie les Singuliers in 1998, he felt the need to exhibit more widely in Poland, notably in Warsaw and Lodz, where he met with great success. In the latter part of his life, he became increasingly involved in drawing. The figures and their arrangement in space were more structured and the colour became whiter. "Paper and pencil remain my daily bread [...] painting invests sculpture and sculpture invests painting", he declared. The artist died in 2025, leaving behind a deeply singular body of work, the subject of numerous institutional acquisitions, notably at the Haifa Museum, the Strasbourg Museum, the City of Paris and the Bibliothèque Nationale.
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