Ancient Scottish Songs (2009)Oil painting by Alexander Levich

In Ancient Scottish Songs (2009), Alexander Levich presents a large-scale oil painting that feels like an encounter with a remembered place – half landscape, half inner architecture. A luminous structure occupies the painting’s core, emerging from layered darkness as if the canvas were revealing a hidden stage set. The work belongs to Levich’s intellectual abstraction period, where form remains suggestive and symbolic rather than descriptive.

The painting’s atmosphere is built through careful tonal engineering: deep blues and earth tones absorb the eye, while warm golden and muted red accents bring the surface into focus like musical notes. Levich’s technique – layered oil passages, subtle transparency, and controlled contrast – creates an impression of time accumulating in paint. The title proposes an interpretive frame: “songs” as memory, rhythm, and inherited cultural resonance, carried across generations and landscapes.

Presented in a custom-made golden wooden frame, Ancient Scottish Songs reads as a statement piece with both conceptual weight and strong interior presence. It will appeal to collectors drawn to poetic abstraction, symbolic realism, and contemporary painting that offers narrative potential without closing interpretation.

Materials used:

Oil

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 138 x 168 x 3cm (framed)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative

Tags: