Charles Levier (1920-2004) Oil Painting on canvas Vase of Flowers, Fleurs Hand signed lower right Dimensions: 34.75 X 20 framed, canvas is 29.5 X 14.75 Charles Levier He was born in 1920 of a French father and American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. World War II came along and Levier served in the French Army in North Africa later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. He worked in a Post Impressionist style with Abstract Cubist influences. He also painted under the pseudonym Maurice Verrier. He is part of the mid century Ecole de Paris along with Bernard Lorjou, Andre Hambourg, Paul Augustin Aizpiri, Michel Henry, Jean Dufy, Raul Dufy, Claude Venard, Yvonne Canu and others. His paintings of Parisian beauties and boulevards are collected worldwide. Throughout the world are to be found his paintings in countless private and public collections. Among those who are collectors are Mr. And Mrs. Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Adlai Stevenson, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Prince and Princess Poniatoski, Mrs. Dan Topping, Mr. And Mrs. Dean Martin and many others. He sold at Wally Findlay Gallery in Chicago along with many of the mid century great European, particularly French and Italian artists. They sold Le Pho, Nicola SImbari, Vu Cao Dam, Marc Chagall, Antoine Blanchard, Tadashi Asoma, Bernard Buffet, Jean-Pierre Cassigneul and Camille Bombois: A French self-taught artist. Provenance: Important Miami area estate that included many paintings and sculpture by Post Impressionist masterpieces and works by Latin American masters. Select Exhibitions 1956 Van Diemen Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, NY 1955 Galleries de Colisee, Paris, France 1950 Martin Lowitz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1949 Galerie Constantine, Lyons, France (solo) Select Public Collections Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Tucson Flint Institute Of Art, Tucson, AZ Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, CA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Evansville Museum of Art & Science, Evansville, IL Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA The High Museum, Atlanta, GA Menton Museum, Paris, France Museum of Modern Art,Paris, France Literature E. Benezit, "Dictionnaries des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs"