Dublin born Les Levine has always been an artist ahead of his time

From early use of video to eye-catching billboard campaigns, Les Levine was very much an artist ahead of his time, writes Richard Fitzpatrick
Dublin born Les Levine has always been an artist ahead of his time

LES LEVINE was eight years old when he first met Jack B Yeats. It was at the artist’s studio in 1943, which was above a shop on South Anne St, just off Grafton St in Dublin. Levine’s uncle, Victor Waddington, who was Yeats’s art dealer, took him there. It was a Saturday morning. Levine, who went on to become one of the first significant artists to use video, says it exposed a whole new world to him.

“I had never come in contact with any kind of an artist before I met him. I can remember the painting he was painting. It was a big painting that took up one wall and it was a painting of the sea. There were three horses coming out of the sea. I had no idea of what art was or who he was. I don’t think he was as well known then as he is now. He wasn’t much of a talker; he was a quiet man.

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