Léopold Survage.

Léopold Survage - Nice, 1916                                                                                                             zu Geschmackssachen

aus Gandalf's Gallery

The young Russian artist Leopold Survage arrived in Paris in 1908, drawn by the Modern French painting he had discovered in the Shchukin collection and during his studies at the School of Fine arts in Moscow. In France he followed the teachings of Matisse whilst assimilating the influence of Cézanne and the Cubists with whom he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1911.

Survage rapidly developed his own style in which he schematised figurative elements and inscribed them within a system of contradictory perspectives. The painter did not enlist in World War I due to health problems and in 1915 left for the South of France with his mistress the Baroness Hélène d'Oettingen. In Nice, as other artists had before him, he discovered with shock the beauty of Mediterranean light.

[Art Institute of Chicago - Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 89.5 cm]

Nota. - So gut wie das obige Stück sind seine Bilder leider nicht geblieben. JE