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Leon Levinstein
Lower East Side, New York, c. 1970s

"Lower East Side, New York", ca. anni '50. © Leon Levinstein.
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Introduction
Operating often on the fringes of official recognition during his lifetime, Leon Levinstein documented the human comedy of New York with an eye that combined formal abstraction with raw sociological realism. The artwork "Lower East Side, New York," depicting a heavy-set woman sitting on the steps of a building, represents a visual archetype of his artistic maturity.
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