Léopold Survage

(French, 1879–1968)

Léopold Survage was a Finnish-born French artist who produced dynamic abstractions of city scenes. Fracturing perspectival space into planar segments, he constructed multiple viewpoints within larger compositions. In this way, structures, flowers, trees, curtains, and birds are reorganized into a fragmented yet coherent pictorial space. In what is perhaps his best-known series, Colored Rhythm: Study for the Film (1913), Survage sought to create a sense of animation through the static medium of painting. “Colored music is in no way an illustration or an interpretation of a musical work,” he once explained. “It is an autonomous art, although based on the same psychological principles as music.” Born on July 31, 1879 in Lappeenranta, Finland, Survage intended to take on his father’s piano factory business but instead studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, where met Alexander Archipenko. The artist moved to Paris in 1910, where he became the studio mate of Amedeo Modigliani and began designing sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. After coming under the influence of the Surrealist André Masson in the 1930’s, Survage’s subject matter became increasingly mystical. The artist died on October 31, 1968 in Paris, France. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others.

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Composition à la tête de taureau, 1965

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Composition à la tête de taureau, 1965

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Collioure, 1926

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Collioure, 1926

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Le taureau évadé, 1932

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Le taureau évadé, 1932

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Visages et mains, 1950

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Visages et mains, 1950

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Composition aux personnages et aux mains, 1944

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Composition aux personnages et aux mains, 1944

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Composition aux personnages, 1947

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Composition aux personnages, 1947

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L'homme dans la ville
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L'homme dans la ville , 1920

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Personnages et animaux dans un paysage..., 1953

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Personnages et animaux dans un paysage..., 1953

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Composition à l'escargot, 1945

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Composition à l'escargot, 1945

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Maison sous les arbres, 1915

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Maison sous les arbres, 1915

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Le cheval

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Paysage

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La peur, 1939

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La peur, 1939

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Deux femmes à la colombe or Les pêcheurs, 1931

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Deux femmes à la colombe or Les pêcheurs, 1931

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Les rochers, 1954

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Les rochers, 1954

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L'homme et la ville, 1955

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L'homme et la ville, 1955

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Deux personnages dans la nuit, 1953

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Deux personnages dans la nuit, 1953

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Les plongeurs, 1955

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Les plongeurs, 1955

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La rencontre, 1956

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La rencontre, 1956

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Personnage à Tossa

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Personnage à Tossa

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Etude pour le tableau L'escargot, 1945

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Etude pour le tableau L'escargot, 1945

Sale Date: January 20, 1997

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La pêche, 1929

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La pêche, 1929

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Le repos, 1927

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Le repos, 1927

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L'envol, 1941

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L'envol, 1941

Sale Date: December 20, 1996

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