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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La vieillesse et la jeunesse (preparatory..., 1939

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La vieillesse et la jeunesse (preparatory..., 1939

Sale Date: June 28, 2005

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Vue de Rome, 1948

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Vue de Rome, 1948

Sale Date: June 10, 2005

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Femmes dans un paysage, 1936

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Femmes dans un paysage, 1936

Sale Date: June 20, 2005

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Personnage et oiseau dans la ville (+ Femmes à...

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Personnage et oiseau dans la ville (+ Femmes à...

Sale Date: June 20, 2005

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Projet de plafond pour la Guadeloupe, 1946

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Projet de plafond pour la Guadeloupe, 1946

Sale Date: June 9, 2005

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Senza titolo, 1926

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Senza titolo, 1926

Sale Date: May 24, 2005

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Feuille et architecture

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Feuille et architecture

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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Femme allongée au couché de soleil, 1935

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Femme allongée au couché de soleil, 1935

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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Personnages et cheval, 1935

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Personnages et cheval, 1935

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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Paysage à Maillebois, 1918

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Paysage à Maillebois, 1918

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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Paysage, 1926

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Paysage, 1926

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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La vieillesse et la jeunesse, 1959

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La vieillesse et la jeunesse, 1959

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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San Gimignano, 1950

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San Gimignano, 1950

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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Éventail, 1958

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Éventail, 1958

Sale Date: April 26, 2005

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L'homme dans la ville, 1920

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L'homme dans la ville, 1920

Sale Date: March 25, 2005

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L'homme de la ville

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L'homme de la ville

Sale Date: March 25, 2005

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Composition

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Sale Date: March 25, 2005

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Les trois joueurs

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Les trois joueurs

Sale Date: April 8, 2005

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Trois personnages, 1931

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Trois personnages, 1931

Sale Date: April 8, 2005

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Etude de personnages et de chevaux, 1954

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Etude de personnages et de chevaux, 1954

Sale Date: April 8, 2005

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Portrait de Marie-Thérèse Montagne à Lille, 1924

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Portrait de Marie-Thérèse Montagne à Lille, 1924

Sale Date: April 7, 2005

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Ville et cheminée

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Ville et cheminée

Sale Date: March 19, 2005

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La danse, 1939

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La danse, 1939

Sale Date: March 19, 2005

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Deux personnages aux feuilles, 1934

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Deux personnages aux feuilles, 1934

Sale Date: March 23, 2005

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