Lithograph, paper; size: 430 x 330 mm; signed in pencil p.d.: Lebenstein, print numbered in pencil l.d.: 15/100. Boulevard Saint-Denis is one of the four main thoroughfares in the 2nd and 10th districts of Paris. The neighborhood is a vibrant, central part of the city.
Lebenstein studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (with A. Nacht-Samborski); from 1959 in Paris; 1956-60 he created a series of paintings combining informel expression with traces of figuration (Axial Figures); in a later period he created texturally rich symbolic fantasies. with reduced colors; a series of illustrations to the Book of Job and the Apocalypse. In 1963-1965 he worked on a series of paintings called Bestiary, depicting zoomorphic creatures, resembling fantastic creatures (Carpathein 1965) or animal fossils (Bête victorieuse 1965). The protagonists of Lebenstein's subsequent series of works from 1967-1971 (Ballon Baba, Image domestique, Image double, Actualités, Le Parquet) were human-animal hybrids, while from the second half of the 1970s onward, in addition to motifs and figures from "internal mythology" (Animal's Sweety Bar 1976, Asile 1989), his works also featured references to class mythology (Barque de Charon 1976).
