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.