Lot n° 203
Estimation :
130000 - 150000
EUR
Leopold SURVAGE (1879-1968)
Architectures with the double silhouette of Guillaume Apollinaire, circa 1917
Oil on panel.
Signed lower left.
Oil on panel.
Signed lower left.
H_46 cm L_38 cm
Source:
- Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris (acquired from the artist)
- Jacqueline Apollinaire, Paris (by succession)
- Gilbert Boudard, Paris (by succession)
- sale, Me Brissonneau, Paris, 2 March 2012, lot 25
- acquired during this sale by the current
owner - private
collection Exhibition: (probably) Paris, Chez Madame Bongard, Paintings by Léopold Survage,
Drawings and watercolours by Irène Lagut, First exhibition of the "Soirées de Paris", January 1917
Born in Moscow in 1879 from a Finnish father and a Danish mother, naturalized French in 1927, Survage is, by its history and its course, one of the key images of this modern culture which, in Paris, welcomed and confronted the Spanish Picasso, the Italian Modigliani, the Romanian Brancusi as well as the Japanese Foujita or the Dutch Mondrian...
The invention in 1912 of the Colored Rhythms made Survage one of the first abstract painters, but also, as evidenced by the current interest of American museums, the first artist to have perceived that cinema could be a means of expression in the same way as painting or sculpture.
Guillaume Apollinaire, who, by discovering the Colored Rhythms, was the first defender of his work, understood, after
Gaumont's refusal to make this film, that a mutation of the painter would be necessary, but would always be at the forefront, beyond cubism, towards this anticipated thing that he had just called Surrealism. This is what he meant a century ago when he wrote: "No one before Survage knew how to put an entire city with the interior of its houses in a single web." "Indeed, from cubism to abstraction, which he crossed with equal happiness, from his first solo exhibition prefaced with calligrams of Apollinaire to his series of Rythmes colorés,
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