Emmanuel Levy - Artist Info

About Emmanuel Levy

  • Biography

    Emmanuel Levy was born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Hightown, Manchester, England. Levy's father was the beadle at the Great Synagogue, Cheetham Hill and he attended the local Jews’ Free School, before studying at Manchester School of Art under Adolphe Valette (c. 1918) together with L. S. Lowry (whose portrait he drew), as well as at St Martin’s School of Art in London, and in Paris. He returned to Manchester for his first solo show in 1925.

    Levy's early work included Jewish subject matter, such as The Mourners (Sitting Shiva) (1928, Ben Uri Collection), executed in a semi-Cubist manner. In 1928, Levy was appointed a special instructor in life drawing at Manchester University School of Architecture upon the recommendat...

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