Lucien Lévy-dhurmer, Horse, Pastel On Paper

Lucien LÉVY, known as Lucien LÉVY-DHURMER
(Algiers 1865 - 1953 Le Vésinet)
Horse
Pastel on paper 52 x 38 cm (at sight)
signed 'Lévy Dhurmer' lower right

Selective bibliography:
Pastels (cat. exp.), Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay from March 14 to July 2, 2023, Paris, Éditions du musée d'Orsay and RMN, 2023

Notable museums:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de the city of Paris

Find out more:
Renowned pastellist, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer first trained with Albert-Charles Wallet and Raphaël Collin then as an ornamental painter in an earthenware factory in Golfe-Juan. At the same time, he continued his activity as a painter and participated in the collective exhibition of Painters of the Soul in 1896, alongside Alphonse Osbert, Émile Gallé and Alexandre Séon. Pastel is undoubtedly Lévy-Dhurmer's favorite medium, who like no other manages to create the silhouettes of his models in a poetic and luminous mist. His best-known works are undoubtedly his symbolist creations, such as Le Silence or Bourrasque, which received rave reviews. The theme of the horse is regularly explored by Lévy-Dhurmer. See Study of saddled horses, Hôtel Drouot, June 16, 1985 or Study of horses, Hôtel Drouot, May 11, 2011, which treats this subject with remarkable rigor.