Lucien Levy Dhurmer was a truly individual artist who held key positions in both the Symbolist and Art Nouveau movement. Throughout his long career he moved effortlessly between mediums, beginning life as a ceramicist after which he took to working in pastels and then paint. Never shy of experimentation Dhurmer realised that art could be incorporated into all areas of life including furniture design and interiors,  a great example being his famous Wisteria dining room which is permanently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and features four incredible murals by the artist.

Having previously exhibited at the Paris Salons between 1882-1889 Dhurmer held his first major exhibition of paintings and pastels at the gallery Georges Petit Paris in 1896, composed primarily of mythical scenes and portraits heavily indebted to the Symbolists and Pre-Raphaelite movement it was not until 1895 that he began to truly focus on landscape painting. 

 From 1895 he began traveling  through Europe producing numerous works heavy with atmosphere, often devoid of human life these timeless dreamlike works often focus on a single feature be it a cliff, a mountain or in this case a lake.  His subject is then given an almost magical perspective where light takes on an almost otherworldly quality giving his paintings a truly individual quality that sits outside of any formal school of art.

His paintings and pastels proved incredibly popular during his lifetime and instantly established the artists reputation in France with one critic writing 'A youth, a debutante and also a Master' another later review described Levy Dhurmers paintings as 'The manifestation of one of the most remarkable figures in the art world of today. For here we have something more than promise. This is the work of an artist in full possession of style and method master of himself and all of his art.'

Having been awarded the bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition in 1900 and being decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1902 the artist took part in several public exhibitions, numerous Salon exhibitions and his works can be found at in a number of museums around the world including:

Musée d'Orsay. Paris

Musée du Louvre. Paris

Petit Palis. Paris

Musée du Ouai Branly, Paris

Musée basque et d'histoire. Bavonne

Musée des Beaux-Arts. Ouimper

Musée de l'Histoire de France. Versailles

Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York

Musée d'Ixelles. Bruxelles