Leopold Survage - Artist Info

About Leopold Survage

  • Biography

    Leopold Survage was born in Moscow in 1879. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, where he associated with Archipenko, Larionov, and Malevich.

    Survage exhibited in Moscow in 1907 at the exhibition "La Guirlande". He was bored with the rigidity of his artistic education in Moscow, but, then in the collection of a rich merchant, he discovered the works of Manet, Gauguin and Matisse; which served as his introduction to modern art, and motivated him to move to Paris in 1908.

    In Paris began to study with Matisse at his academy on the Boulevard des Invalides. He was introduced into the art circles of Paris by his friend Archipenko, and exhibited with the Cubists at the Salon des In...

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