peter-leventhal-american-1939-2019-beach-party
Lot 1294
Peter Leventhal (American, 1939-2019), Beach Party
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, framed.

Frame dimensions 21 x 24 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the late Linda Kornberg, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Born in New York City in 1939 to immigrant parents, Peter Leventhal spent his lifetime devoted to drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpting, with more than 40 solo exhibits to his name.

In his 60s, he left the city to live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he met his wife and lived until passing in 2019. Though he lived with Parkinson's disease, when the tremors in his right hand became too much to work with, he switched to using his left hand and continued his art for another ten years.

In his own words, "I proposed to myself to find a way to the aesthetic beauty of painted images and I wanted my work to emulate the ample, complex construction of the art of the past; figurative, narrative, and elegant."

Light surface grime; minor rubbing to frame.