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Léopold SurvageVille by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE - art, colourful cubist oil painting by Modern master1924
1924
About the Item
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE (1879-1968)
Oil and graphite on canvas
73.4 x 60 cm (28 ⁷/₈ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Survage 24
This work is an early 1924 painting accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Anne-Marie Divieto.
Provenance
Private collection, Paris, before 1993
Private collection, France
Exhibitions
Troyes, Musée d'Art Moderne et Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse, Survage: Les Années Héroïques, January-June 1993, p. 95 (illustrated in colour; titled, Village à l'Oiseau)
Artist biography
Léopold Survage was a French painter of Russian-Danish-Finnish descent born in Vilmanstrand, Finland. From a young age, Survage worked at his father’s piano factory. He learned to play piano, then completed a commercial diploma in 1897. After a severe illness at the age of 22, Survage reconsidered his career and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Introduced to the modern movement through the collections of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, he cast his lot with the Russian avant-garde and, by 1906, was loosely affiliated with the circle of the magazine Zolotoye runo (Golden fleece) He met Alexander Archipenko, exhibiting with him in the company of David Burlyuk, Vladimir Burlyuk, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova.
With Hélène Moniuschko, later his wife, he travelled to Western Europe, visiting Paris in July 1908. The couple eventually settled in Paris where Survage worked as a piano tuner and briefly attended the short-lived school run by Henri Matisse. He exhibited with the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow in 1910 and first showed his work in France - at the urging of Archipenko - in the Salon d'Automne of 1911.
In 1913, Survage produced abstract compositions using colour and movement to evoke a type of musical sensation. Entitled Rythmes Colorés, he planned to animate these illustrations by means of film to form "symphonies en couleur". He saw these abstract images as flowing together, but he exhibited the ink wash drawings separately at the Salon d'Automne in 1913 and Salon des Indépendants in 1914. Articles on these works were published by Guillaume Apollinaire (Paris-J., July 1914) and Survage himself (Soirées Paris, July–August 1914). In June 1914, in order to develop his idea, Survage unsuccessfully applied to the Gaumont Film Company for a patent. Had he been able to raise the funds, he would have preceded Viking Eggeling and Hans Richter as the first to develop abstract films.
Beginning in 1917, Survage shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani in Paris. Survage later moved to Nice and, over the next eight years, produced highly structured oils and works on paper linked together by a series of leitmotifs, repeating groups of symbolic elements - man, sea, building, flower, window, curtain, bird - as if they were protagonists in a series of moving images. The influence may have been Marc Chagall's, an artist well known for his insertions of floating couples, cows, roosters, and sundry Jewish iconography.
By 1922, Survage had begun to move away from Cubism in favour of the neo-classical form. He was perhaps influenced by commissions for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, beginning with sets and costumes for Igor Stravinsky's opera buffa Mavra at the Paris Opéra in 1922. Although mainly a painter, he also produced stage, tapestry, and textile designs during this period (notably for the house of Chanel in 1933). Toward the end of the 1930s, as a result of his contact with André Masson and the Surrealists, Survage became increasingly charmed by symbols and mysticism. The curvilinear forms that had previously dominated his compositions came, once again, under the control of geometric structure.
Survage was inducted into France's Légion d'Honneur in 1963. He died on 31 October 1968.
- Creator:Léopold Survage (1879-1968)
- Creation Year:1924
- Dimensions:Height: 28.9 in (73.4 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU261213462962
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