Matvey Levenstein
Matvey Levenstein’s delicate and exquisitely rendered paintings explore themes of history and representation. His paintings and works on paper are filtered through the most traditional painterly genres—the landscape, the still life, and the portrait—and are imbued with a distinctly literary sensitivity; they are quiet meditations on the relevance of Romanticism in the twenty-first century.
My interest in Nicolas Poussin lies in the complexities of his art and his legacy. He impacted many later artists, and most importantly for me, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
May 2017Critics Page
Looking at Late de Chirico: Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa Yuskavage
Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) Fellow Giovanni Casini moderated the conversation, held at CIMA on March 21, 2017.

