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His works abound with metaphors and references to mythology (Ulysses and his raft). The artist explores drawing and painting, but sculpture (in bronze or terracotta) remains his preferred field of experimentation. Léon The sculptor preserves through the 3D figure the same concern for representation that he cultivated with the art of painting. His creations follow the same construction process as still life. The sense of microscopic detail is combined with a construction of a geometric whole. The base is also the language of another poetry, a story or a dream that is grafted onto the structure. From this angle, the writer Marc Hérissé praised his "human silhouettes most often heraldic on which he re-scratches other silhouettes" and his ability to bring out the depths, to awaken unsuspected dreams and to make the dark memory light. The artist also praises beauty, that of a female bust, or the right balance of a being's curves. Harmony reigns, expression blossoms and gentleness tempers.
He has had numerous exhibitions: Abel Rosenberg Gallery in Paris in 1969, Salon de Mai in 1978, the Lambert studio in 1984, Salon de Mars with the Hansma Gallery in 1992, Galerie les Singuliers in 1998… His works have been the subject of numerous acquisitions: museums in Haifa, Strasbourg, the city of Paris, the National Library, City Bank in New York. Leon Levkovitch has been exhibiting since 1962.
