Charles Levier Furniture

Watercolor and ink depicting a harlequin and a woman to the right of a coastal landscape. The woman with poignant eyes and a blue shaded face. They are standing in front of a lattice...

Watercolor and ink depicting a floral still life with colorful bouquet in a blue and white vase set on a round pink/purple covered table, a blu...

Watercolor and ink depicting two women standing behind a colorful bouquet of flowers. The women with dark poignant eyes are standing in a crowd with other figures in the background. ...

Large watercolor and ink depicting a woman to the left, almost in the shadows, wearing a blue hat and patterned dress, holding a floral bouquet. A street scene with other figures and...

Watercolor and ink on paper depicting a bouquet of colorful flowers in a blue and white vase on a table top surface over-looking the marina. White sailboats in the background with bl...

Watercolor and ink depicting a coastal scene with beached sailboats along the sand, a female figure in red in the foreground, blue waters of the surf in the background and a large pa...

Watercolor and ink depicting a young lady, in a red dress holding a bouquet of flowers in the foreground. Set against a street scene with faceless prostitutes standing in the center ...

Watercolor and ink depicting a girl with flowers standing against a red clapboard structure with blue shutters. A view of city roof-tops, church steeple and brown rolling hills is se...

Watercolor and ink depicting a group of women with attention drawn to the dark poignant eyes and forlorn expressions. A striking use of color with each woman standing out with hair c...

Watercolor and ink depicting a colorful floral bouquet in a blue and white pitcher on a table top surface over-looking blue waters. Presented in a nickel frame, matted and glazed. Si...

Watercolor and ink depicting a colorful floral bouquet in a blue and white vase near a window over-looking structures and roof-tops with rolling hills in the far off distance. Signed...

Watercolor and ink depicting a colorful floral bouquet in a vase on a striped table top surface. The flowers probably on a veranda or terrace overlook the blue tonal waters of the ba...

Watercolor and ink depicting a coastal scene with three boats moored on the sandy beach along with a figure inside one boat and a figure standing to the left. A sun-washed white stru...

Watercolor and ink depicting two women to the right with soulful expressions and shaded blue poignant eyes. Other figures in the background beneath a striped canopy. Signed lower lef...

Watercolor and ink depicting a coastal scene with two sailboats in the foreground of the marina with other moored vessels in the background. The watercolor with white-sun bleached st...

Watercolor and ink depicting two women to the left, partially hidden behind florals and greenery, over-looking the city red tiled roof tops and steeple with vivid blue rolling hills ...

Watercolor and ink landscape depicting a prominent tree to the left, flowers in the foreground, rural structures to the center and blue rolling hills in the distance. Signed lower le...

Watercolor and ink depicting a colorful and prominent floral bouquet in a blue and white vase on a striped table over-looking a clear view of a church. Signed lower right. Presented ...

A beautiful woman sits at an open window, gazing down at a small bird who has landed nearby in this serene portrait by Charles Levier. Warm orange tones are played off their complements in shades of blue, the artist utilizing several different layers of oils to create a subtle and relaxed view of a spring day near the sea. Beyond the window a small chapel sits on a peninsula, surrounded tranquil blue waters. This work, like many of Levier's, belongs to the French figurative movement of the Glorious Thirty (Les Trente Glorieuses) - the golden period of thirty years after WWII which were a time of great hope and prosperity in France. Inspired by Hollywood cinema, Charles Levier sought harmony in composition and purity of color and form. His said that his creations represented "a light and delicate world, of dark and subtle shades and colors." Levier worked in a somewhat abstracted, cubist style. Additionally he often employed the French technique of "cloisonnism" (after the French for "partition"), a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, also seen in this work. The term was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888 and was commonly used by artists like Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Paul...

Charles LEVIER (1920-2003) La Terrasse Signed Levier (lower right); titled La Terrasse and signed C. Levier (on the reverse), Oil on canvas, size with frame 48 by 39.5 in. 121.92 by...