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JOHN LEVEE
John Levee (1924-2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter. Having been born in California Levée attended the Institute of Art there with fellow students Mark Rothko, Clifford Still and Richard Diebenkorn, before finding himself in the Secon d World War fighting to liberate France in 1944. He arrived back in Paris in 1949 and enrolled at the avant-garde Academie Julian in 1950 where he met fellow American artist Sam Francis and worked as a painter in Montparnasse. He studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles and at Académie Julian in Paris from 1949 to 1951.
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Over the course of his life, Levée exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1957 and 1958, the Whitney Museum NY in 1957, 1959 and 1965, Carnegie Institute 1958, Phoenix Museum of Art Arizona 1964, Palm Springs Museum 1977, among others. He also held regular exhibitions at Andre Emmerich Gallery in New York and in London at Gimpel Fils. A major retrospective of the artist’s work was held at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Toulouse in 1983.
Levee is represented in numerous major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Baltimore Museum of Art, Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Walker Arts Center, Whitney Museum of American Art & Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.
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July IV, 1959
Oil on canvas
70 x 80 inches
Signed & dated upper left
Provenance:
Lita Annenberg Hazen (1909-1995) and Joseph H. Hazen (1898-1994), New York; by gift to the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1961; property of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Sold for the benefit of the collection.
Exhibited:
Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 9, 1959-January 31, 1960, catalogue no. 71
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March
II, 1960
Oil on canvas
59 × 20 inches
Signed, dated and titled verso
Provenance: Andre Emmerich Gallery (label verso)
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Peinture, 1953
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 × 31 3/4 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, museum label affixed to the verso
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Paris XVI, 1953
Oil on canvas
6 1/4 × 18 3/4 inches
Signed & dated upper left
Provenance: Private Collection, Boca Raton, FL
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August V, 1957
Oil on canvas
39 × 39 inches
Signed lower right, Titled and dated verso
Provenance: Private Collection, New York
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
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April IX, 1957
Oil on canvas
18 × 25 1/2 inches
Signed & dated lower left
Provenance: Private Collection, New York
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Paris XVI, 1953
Oil on canvas
14 3/4 × 23 3/4 inches
Signed & dated upper right
Provenance: Private Collection, Boca Raton, FL
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September IV, 1958
Oil on canvas
32 × 40 inches
Signed & dated upper right
Provenance: Andre Emmerich Gallery (label verso)
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20 INDEX CATALOG PAGE July IV, 1959 4- 5 March II, 1960 6- 7 Peinture, 1953 8- 9 Paris XVI, 1953 10 - 11 August V, 1957 12- 13 Paris XVI, 1953 16- 17 September IV, 1958 18- 19 April IX, 1957 14- 15 24
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