Born in New York City in 1939 to immigrant parents, Peter Leventhal devoted his life to drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture, with more than 40 solo exhibitions to his name.
In his 60s, he left the city to settle in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he met his wife and lived until his passing in 2019. Despite living with Parkinson’s disease, when the tremors in his right hand became too severe to work with, he switched to his left hand and continued creating art for another ten years.
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In his own words: “I proposed to myself to find a way to the aesthetic beauty of painted images, and I wanted my work to emulate the ample, complex construction of the art of the past—figurative, narrative, and elegant.”
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Clearly, he lived by those words.
Paintings
Peter Leventhal’s paintings blend narrative, tradition, and beauty. Rooted in the legacy of the great masters, his work captures both timeless stories and the emotional depth of lived experience.
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