Léopold Survage Framed Watercolor, 1956

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Léopold Survage (Finnish-born French Artist, 1879-1968) framed watercolor, 1956. Survage intended to take on his father’s piano factory business but … more Léopold Survage (Finnish-born French Artist, 1879-1968) framed watercolor, 1956. Survage intended to take on his father’s piano factory business but instead studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, where he 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. 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. less