Charles Levier, French, American, British, 1920 to 2003, oil painting on canvas, In Front of Venice. Circa: 1960s to 1970s. Signed lower left. Framed. Additionally titled in French and signed, on the backside. Charles Levier was born to a French father and an American mother in Corsica. From an early age, he held a fascination with color and form which led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. His first one-man show opened at the Galerie Constantine, in Lyons in 1949, followed by an American debut in Los Angeles in 1950. Levier continued with gallery shows in both France and the United States. Leviers works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Paris and the Menton Museum, Paris. In the United States, his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Atlanta Museum, the Seattle Museum, the Evansville Museum, the New Orleans Museum and the San Diego Museum. Levier is most known for his Abstracted Post Impressionistic still lifes and cityscapes of harbor towns as well as female studies. One of a kind artwork.