Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865-1953)
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865-1953)

La fantaisie orientale

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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865-1953)
La fantaisie orientale
signed and dated 'L. Lévy Dhurmer 1921' (lower left)
oil on canvas
73 7/8 x 78¾ in. (187.6 x 200 cm.)
Painted in 1921
Sale room notice
Please note that measurements for lot 98 should be 187.6 x 200 cm and not as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer was a Symbolist landscape and portrait painter trained at the École Superieure de Dessin et Sculpture in Paris. After a trip to Venice, where he immersed himself in 15th Century Italian art, he returned to Paris where he exhibited his first group of pastels and paintings at a Galerie Georges Petit. Lévy-Dhurmer embraced the symbolist tradition of painting with feeling and evocation rather than definition and fact. The present work is an excellent example of Lévy-Dhurmer's imaginative and spirited landscape paintings.

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