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Landscape: Cubist Abstracted Composition, 1959 Large Colourful French Oil on Canvas
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Landscape: Cubist Abstracted Composition, 1959 Large Colourful French Oil on Canvas

1940 - 1960
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A colourful and luminous composition featuring an old house and its garden. Dating from 1959, the picture is lighted cubist and abstracted. It is a painting by French Jewish artist Alfred Levy (1915-1970), who signed his work Alvy, using the first and last letters of is first and second name.

And oil on canvas with thick impasto measuring 74 x 54 cm, the painting is presented in a patinated box frame.

Physical Dimensions
Height
73cm (28.74")
Width
54cm (21.26")
Depth
1cm (0.39")
Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this French Cubist Landscape Painting to the 1950s.

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SA1057319
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A colourful and luminous composition featuring an old house and its garden. Dating from 1959, the picture is lighted cubist and abstracted.
It is a painting by French Jewish artist Alfred Levy (1915-1970), who signed his work Alvy, using the first and last letters of is first and second name.
Skippings Fine Arts

And oil on canvas with thick impasto measuring 74 x 54 cm, the painting is presented in a patinated box frame.

Height
73cm (28.74")
Width
54cm (21.26")
Depth
1cm (0.39")
Date of Manufacture

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this French Cubist Landscape Painting to the 1950s.

Reference Numbers
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SA1057319
Skippings Fine Arts
Skippings Fine Arts
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Modern french & continental pictures selected by a former french auction house expert

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A 1959 mid-century oil painting on canvas featuring an abstracted landscape with a house and trees in blue, green, and ochre impasto textures.
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Archive I A 1959 mid-century oil painting on canvas featuring an abstracted landscape with a house and trees in blue, green, and ochre impasto textures.

Landscape: Cubist Abstracted Composition, 1959 Large Colourful French Oil on Canvas

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Archive IV A 1959 mid-century oil painting on canvas featuring an abstracted landscape with a house and trees in blue, green, and ochre impasto textures. View IV
Archive V A 1959 mid-century oil painting on canvas featuring an abstracted landscape with a house and trees in blue, green, and ochre impasto textures. View V
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A 1959 mid-century oil painting on canvas featuring an abstracted landscape with a house and trees in blue, green, and ochre impasto textures.
Landscape: Cubist abstracted composition, 1959 large colourful French oil on canvas
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A 1959 mid-century oil painting on canvas featuring an abstracted landscape with a house and trees in blue, green, and ochre impasto textures.
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Mid-century French cubist landscapes decompose natural countryside features into structured, geometric planes while retaining recognisable elements of architecture and nature through vibrant colour block application.

Artists during this era applied heavy oil-based pigments onto stretched linen or cotton canvas, using palette knives and firm bristle brushes to build layered, tactile surface textures.

Authentic pieces generally feature age-consistent canvas oxidation, natural craquelure throughout heavy paint areas, period-appropriate canvas stretchers, and contemporary signatures or dates.

Large abstract landscapes are often hung as a focal point above sideboards, consoles, or fireplaces, paired with neutral walls and clean-lined furniture to allow the paintings colour and texture to stand out.

Keep the artwork away from direct sunlight, dampness, and radiator heat sources, and clean dust gently from the textured surface using a soft, dry natural bristle brush without liquids.
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