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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Femme debout, 1925

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Femme debout, 1925

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Visages anthropomorphes

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Visages anthropomorphes

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L'homme courant, 1930

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L'homme courant, 1930

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Le hérault, 1936

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Le hérault, 1936

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Femme et main, 1943

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Femme et main, 1943

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Portrait de femme (+ Étude de mains, verso)

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Portrait de femme (+ Étude de mains, verso)

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Femme debout, 1925

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Femme debout, 1925

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Personnages, 1932

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Personnages, 1932

Sale Date: November 18, 2007

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Deux Cheveaux, 1954

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Deux Cheveaux, 1954

Sale Date: November 10, 2007

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The beauty and the beast, 1939

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The beauty and the beast, 1939

Sale Date: November 27, 2007

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Le charbon, 1951

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Le charbon, 1951

Sale Date: October 31, 2007

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Farbige Komposition mit Figuren, 1950

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Farbige Komposition mit Figuren, 1950

Sale Date: November 9, 2007

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Maison dans les arbres, 1910–1911

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Maison dans les arbres, 1910–1911

Sale Date: October 22, 2007

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Couple dans un intérieur (Portrait..., 1913

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Couple dans un intérieur (Portrait..., 1913

Sale Date: October 22, 2007

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Femme au poisson, Tossa, Espagne, 1930

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Femme au poisson, Tossa, Espagne, 1930

Sale Date: October 22, 2007

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L'homme dans la ville, 1920

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L'homme dans la ville, 1920

Sale Date: October 20, 2007

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Nus (set of 4)

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Nus (set of 4)

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Nu féminin et nu masculin (set of 4), 1909–1910

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Nu féminin et nu masculin (set of 4), 1909–1910

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Nu debout (+ 3 others; set of 4)

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Nu debout (+ 3 others; set of 4)

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Femme à sa lessive au bord du rivage

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Femme à sa lessive au bord du rivage

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Les parents de l'artiste

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Les parents de l'artiste

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Cinq figures d'hommes et de femmes dont celle de

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Cinq figures d'hommes et de femmes dont celle de

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Danseuse, 1940

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Danseuse, 1940

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Études de frises (+ 2 others; set of 3), 1946

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Études de frises (+ 2 others; set of 3), 1946

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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