Léon Lehmann, Fir Tree Under The Snow, 1948

Léon Lehmann is a French painter and draftsman, a former student of Gustave Moreau's workshop where he rubbed shoulders with Matisse, Marquet and Rouault, whose great friend he became. First passionate about military subjects in his youth, he was then influenced by the post-Impressionist, Fauve and Cézanian avant-garde, then turned after the First World War towards a very personal and original painting which would make him successful in the good Parisian galleries (B.Weill, Druet, Blot, Bernheim-Jeune, K.Granoff...). His works are present in around twenty museums in France and abroad. The work we are presenting is a snow landscape seen from the artist's studio in Altkirch, with a fir tree in the center, a gazebo on the right and the Roggenberg hill in the background. This very luminous painting, brushed in broad strokes, at the limits of abstraction, corresponds to the artist's latest style. Signed lower right.