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| Leopold Survage 1879–1969, The Bird and the City, 1920, Oil on canvas, 25.7 x 19.8 in |
| Lełopold Survage was an important Russian-French painter. At the age of 22 Survage 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. He met Alexander Archipenko, exhibiting with him in the company of David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. In July of 1908, in Paris, Survage attended the school run by Henri Matisse. He exhibited with the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow in 1910 and showed his work for the frist time in France – at the urging of Archipenko – in the Salon d’Automne of 1911. From 1912, Survage produced abstract compositions entitled Coloured Rhythm and exhibited them at the Salon d’Automne in 1913 and Salon des Indełpendants in 1914. From1917, Survage shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani in Paris. In 1922 Survage had begun to work with Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at the Paris Opełra. Toward the end of the 1930s, as a result of his contact with Andre Masson, Survage became increasingly charmed by symbols and mysticism. Survage was inducted into France’s Lełgion d’Honneur in 1963 and died in 1968.His works are in the Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow; Musełe national d’art moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musełe national d’art moderne, Paris; Musełe du Petit Palais, Geneva; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. |
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