Joel Ionovitch Levitt The Last Evocations Oil On Canvas 250 X 200 Cm

Joel Ionovitch Levitt (1875-1937)
The last evocations
Circa 1900
Oil on canvas 
250 x 200 cm
Signed lower left
Joel Ionovitch Levitt first Ukrainian and American. He studied At Odessa  School of Art and Drawing Academia of Petrogard. Then he moved to United States and became am member of Salmagundi Club.

Pupil of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg from 1902 to 1909, Joel Ionovich Levitt received the official title of free painter in 1909 for the painting "The last evocations" .
The painter condenses in this work the psychological realism from Repin, of which he was the pupil, the poetry of the symbolism of the Silver Age to the art of landscape with the colorist keys of Levitan.
The seated figure, certainly the artist himself, takes up the meditative position of Christ in the desert of Ivan Kramskoi (1872). T
he painter took over his work to give it a deeper meaning and a more striking visual impact. He erases the muse upright, the painting takes a more symbolic form.
The female figure of which we only see the body is an ideal for the painter.
The purity of the forms and the line emphasizes a whiteness of skin with red highlights. This change due to the hand of the artist himself gives the work an enigmatic depth.