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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Étude pour nature morte à la poire, 1920

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Étude pour nature morte à la poire, 1920

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Nature morte aux fraises et canotier, 1912

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Nature morte aux fraises et canotier, 1912

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Guéridon au vase de fleurs, 1912

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Guéridon au vase de fleurs, 1912

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Baigneuses, 1912

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Baigneuses, 1912

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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Danseurs, 1912–1913

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Danseurs, 1912–1913

Sale Date: October 23, 2007

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La rue du rewe Liège, 1958

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La rue du rewe Liège, 1958

Sale Date: October 6, 2007

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Les Coqs, 1950

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Les Coqs, 1950

Sale Date: September 19, 2007

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La forêt, 1910

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La forêt, 1910

Sale Date: August 5, 2007

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Composition aux poissons et à l'oiseau

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Composition aux poissons et à l'oiseau

Sale Date: June 6, 2007

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Personnages et nature morte sur fond bleu, 1955

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Personnages et nature morte sur fond bleu, 1955

Sale Date: June 27, 2007

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Village de Bretagne, 1922

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Village de Bretagne, 1922

Sale Date: June 6, 2007

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Porteuse, 1922

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Porteuse, 1922

Sale Date: June 6, 2007

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Composition, 1948

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Composition, 1948

Sale Date: June 19, 2007

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Nu debout de dos, 1923

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Nu debout de dos, 1923

Sale Date: June 21, 2007

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Nu debout, 1923

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Nu debout, 1923

Sale Date: June 21, 2007

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Maisons dans les arbres, 1945

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Maisons dans les arbres, 1945

Sale Date: June 27, 2007

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La ville, feuilles et main, 1931

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La ville, feuilles et main, 1931

Sale Date: July 3, 2007

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L'âge d'or (cheval noir), 1936

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L'âge d'or (cheval noir), 1936

Sale Date: June 22, 2007

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La route d'Albi, 1925

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La route d'Albi, 1925

Sale Date: June 21, 2007

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Étude (+ another; 2 works), 1941–1942

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Étude (+ another; 2 works), 1941–1942

Sale Date: June 13, 2007

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Motif pour une illustration de livre (+..., 1945

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Motif pour une illustration de livre (+..., 1945

Sale Date: June 12, 2007

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Marin, 1927

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Sale Date: June 12, 2007

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Tempête, 1929

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Tempête, 1929

Sale Date: June 12, 2007

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Scène animée

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Scène animée

Sale Date: April 27, 2007

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