Fine Art, Jewelry and Antiques
Sun, Mar 22, 2026 11:00AM EDT
Lot 424
David Phillip Levine (1910-2005) Drawing of Seated Woman, 1959
Estimate: $150 - $250
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Graphite on a paper, signed and dated lower right. 14" x 8 1/2" sheet side.
The following, submitted October 2004, is from the artist.
David P. Levine attended the University of Southern California and Art Center School of Design between 1929 and 1936, followed by a brief stay in New York. He returned to Los Angeles in 1937 where he produced works that were sympathetic depictions of hobo camps, tenement scenes, derelict buildings, unemployed wanderers and farms -- a response to the conditions then in Southern California.
In 1940, Levine moved to Mexico City, and then to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, refining his painting technique and exploring other media -- aquatint, monotype and woodcutting. He painted among working class locals, documenting the reality of their day-to-day struggles. His narrative is moody and symbolic in content, while maintaining an intent to be sensitive and compassionate for humanity in the tone and expression of his art.
Upon his return to Los Angeles in 1941, Levine worked as a technical artist in the aircraft industry, while at home he created paintings related to the tempo that surrounded him in the war time factories.
Later in life, beginning 1980, Levine returned to painting, creating abstract and semi-abstract acrylic paintings, and assemblages.
Between 1938 and 1997, Levine's work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Foundation of Western Art, Riverside Museum, California Watercolor Society, Portland Art Musem, Stendahl Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Denver Museum of Art, Seattle Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Ontario Museum of Art, Universtiy of Judaism, Laguna Art Museum, Toby C. Moss Gallery, Yale University Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, Museo de Monterrey (Mexico), Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley) and the Orange County Museum of Art. Levine's paintings won first place/purchase awards at the Los Angeles County Fair (1938), Los Angeles All City Competition (1937) and the Sacramento State Fair (1939).
His paintings are in private collections and in the collections of the Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College (Massachusetts).
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