#jack levine

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Birmingham '63, 1963 (detail)

Jack Levine

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Jack Levine (1915-2010), “The Princess” (1960), oil on canvas, 121.9 x 198.1 cm.

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Jack Levine - Study For Man With a Cigar

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Artist Jack Levine

(Eliot Elisofon. 1950)

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Samson and the Lion

Jack Levine

American, 1915-2010

1983

Oil on canvas

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Jack Levine, Rabbi in white, 1970s

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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition,nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

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The Princess (1960). Jack Levine (American, 1915-2010). Oil on canvas.

Jack Levine wrote: "The Princess was an effort at a formal portrait. I originally had it in mind to do Grace Kelly, when she became a princess, but she's too beautiful for parody. If you try to do a parody of a woman like that, it won't look like her. Well, I did my best and finally I just wound up painting my idea of a Velázquez or a Gainsborough or something like that. It's a society portrait. When I was a kid, I once thought I might be a society portrait painter, but unfortunately nobody in Boston wanted me. I don't think I would have remained a portrait painter, but I certainly love the great portrait paintings, the Holbeins and the Van Dykes. It's generally thought that that cannot be done anymore - that you can't do a commissioned portrait that will please your customer and create a work of art. That's another 20th-century premise I don't accept. I think that's possible."