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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Grande Ourse, Petite Ourse, Cassiopée, le..., 1955

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Grande Ourse, Petite Ourse, Cassiopée, le..., 1955

Sale Date: December 12, 2008

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Cityscape, Albi

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Cityscape, Albi

Sale Date: November 27, 2008

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Composition with flower, 1948

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Composition with flower, 1948

Sale Date: November 27, 2008

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Arbres et toits rouges

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Arbres et toits rouges

Sale Date: November 21, 2008

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Composition, 1928

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Composition, 1928

Sale Date: November 19, 2008

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Paysage, 1934

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Paysage, 1934

Sale Date: November 19, 2008

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La ville

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Sale Date: November 24, 2008

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Femme debout, 1928

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Femme debout, 1928

Sale Date: November 17, 2008

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Portrait de Germaine endormie

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Portrait de Germaine endormie

Sale Date: November 17, 2008

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Marsh iris, 1935

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Marsh iris, 1935

Sale Date: November 25, 2008

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Le Potager, 1945

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Le Potager, 1945

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Femme au panier

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Femme au panier

Sale Date: October 31, 2008

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Composition cubiste-Les trois amies

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Composition cubiste-Les trois amies

Sale Date: October 19, 2008

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Les vendeuses de poisson (La dispute), 1927

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Les vendeuses de poisson (La dispute), 1927

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Oeuvres (various sizes; 2 works)

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Oeuvres (various sizes; 2 works)

Sale Date: October 24, 2008

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Personnages, 1913

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Personnages, 1913

Sale Date: October 24, 2008

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Composition avec maison et poisson, 1961

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Composition avec maison et poisson, 1961

Sale Date: October 25, 2008

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Danseurs, 1955

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Danseurs, 1955

Sale Date: October 3, 2008

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Seated nude, 1924

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Seated nude, 1924

Sale Date: October 2, 2008

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Seated nude

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Sale Date: October 2, 2008

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Nude

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Sale Date: October 2, 2008

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A vision of hell, 1937

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A vision of hell, 1937

Sale Date: October 2, 2008

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Nice: composition with a woman carrying water, 1926

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Nice: composition with a woman carrying water, 1926

Sale Date: October 2, 2008

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Composition with a horse and a sailing boat, 1945

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Composition with a horse and a sailing boat, 1945

Sale Date: October 2, 2008

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