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. 

Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women, ca. 1633–34. Oil on canvas, 60 ⅞ × 82 ⅝ inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) Fellow Giovanni Casini moderated the conversation, held at CIMA on March 21, 2017.
Giorgio de Chirico, Gladiateurs (Gladiators), 1928. Oil on canvas, 51.2 × 38.2 inches. Nahmad Collection, Monaco. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Photo: Adam Reich.

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