Rating and value of works, drawings, paintings by Lucien Lévy Dhurmer

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Rating and value of the artist Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

A French Symbolist painter par excellence, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer devoted himself mainly to portraits and landscapes. Most of his work is based on a wide range of paintings, but there are also rare sculptures and ceramics. The prices at which his works are sold range from €20 to €1,350 374, a substantial delta but one that speaks volumes about the value that can be attributed to the artist's works. In this case, the portrait of an Andalusian woman on a blue and white abstract background sold for €6 038 in 2023.  

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Style and technique of Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer finds his style and learns from several artistic currents such as Academism and more particularly Symbolism through his attraction to dreams, a certain mysticism and a form of melancholy, in reaction to naturalism. His style is also reminiscent of early 19th-century Romanticism and Pre-Raphaelitism, recalling the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais. He paints women with a symbolic or even mythological character, in a vaporous style, and being proponents of the " non finito ", the background against which the bust figures appear is relatively abstract or sketched.

The life of Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Born in Algiers in 1865, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer began his artistic training in 1879 at the École communale supérieure de dessin et de sculpture in Paris. His spectacular mastery of pastel and drawing quickly earned him a reputation, and he worked at Clément Massier's Manufacture for 8 years.

In 1896, following the organization of a monographic exhibition of Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer's work at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris, his career took a turning point. His works spread like intimate portraits, his pastels, drawings and paintings testifying to an art of evocation, often taking the form of intimate, mysterious and unsettling portraits.

His travels throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East lend a singular exoticism to his canvases, which are reminiscent of Jean-Léon Gérôme's Orientalism. Music is an undeniable source of inspiration, and his work is reminiscent of James McNeill Whistler's famous symphonie en blanc n°1. He thus drew inspiration from the greatest composers of his time, such as Beethoven and Debussy, to paint works such as La Sonate au clair de Lune.

Le silence remains one of his most enigmatic and unsettling portraits, now preserved at the Musée d'Orsay. Akin to an allegory of fatality, this one depicts a woman looking like the Virgin Mary, posing in a frontal, hieratic pose, against a starry background. The painter was undoubtedly inspired by Auguste Préault's famous sculpture.

The artist's imprint on his period

Lévy-Dhurmer was awarded a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition in 1900, before receiving the Legion of Honor in 1902, which greatly contributed to the growth of his fame at the dawn of the twentieth century. 

Recognizing Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer's signature

The painter didn't sign all his works, which doesn't make for easy expertise. When his works are signed, the signature appears as a voluptuous, conspicuous idiogram in flowing script.

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