This beautiful original oil on canvas is a fantastic, moody example of his coastal views. It captures the atmosphere of the French resort town with the painterly vision he developed studying under masters like Harpignies. c. 1890’s or 1900’s.

Dieppe was a popular French resort frequented by many prominent artists and art patrons of the 19th century.

The piece has excellent provenance. It originated in a private collection in Tuxedo Park, New York, before we acquired it directly from the prestigious Schiller & Bodo gallery in Manhattan.

Maurice Levis was born in Paris in 1860. He was a student of the landscape artist Henri-Joseph Harpignies, the academic master Charles-Victor-Eugene Lefebvre and Pierre Billet. He exhibited regularly in the Salon after his debut in 1886, and also figured prominently at the exhibition of the Societaire des Artistes Francais in 1888. He shared the painterly vision of the Impressionists, and went on to have a distinguished career as a landscape painter. Levis died in Paris in 1940.