(Moscow, 1879 - Paris, 1968)
L'Oiseau, 1915
Oil on cardboard mounted on Isorel
Signed and dated lower right Survage 15
51 x 44 cm
Executed in Nice in 1915
during the Pink Period of the artist
Exhibitions :
- Gleizes-Metzinger, Du Cubisme et après, L’Adresse, Musée de la Poste, Paris, from the 9th of May to the 22th of September 2012
- Gleizes-Metzinger, Du Cubisme et après, Musée de Lodève, Lodève, from the 22nd of June to the 3rd of November 2013
- Autour du Bateau-Lavoir des artistes à Montmartre (1892-1930) et la Méditerranée, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, from the 29th of March to the 24th of August 2014
- Survage abstrait ou cubiste? Itinerant exhibition in 4 museums:
Museum of Béziers, Béziers, from 28 March to 11 June 2017
Pierre André Benoît Museum, PAB, Alès, from June 30 to October 8, 2017
MiLL, Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière, Belgium, from 27 October 2017 to 14 January 2018
Musée de la faïence et des Beaux-Arts, Nevers, from 10 February to 29 April 2018
Literature :
- Gleizes-Metzinger, Du Cubisme et après, catalogue of the exhibition at L’Adresse, Musée de la Poste, Paris, by Josette Rasle, Serge Fauchereau, Peter Brooke, Christian Briend and Gladys Fabre, Beaux-arts de Paris Les Editions, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, 2012, described and reproduced in colour page 77
- Gleizes-Metzinger, Du Cubisme et après, catalogue of the exhibition at the Musee de Lodeve, Lodeve, France, by Josette Rasle, Serge Fauchereau, Peter Brooke, Christian Briend and Gladys Fabre, Beaux-arts de Paris Les Editions, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, 2012, described and reproduced in colour page 77
- Autour du Bateau-Lavoir des artistes à Montmartre (1892-1930) et la Méditerranée, catalogue of the exhibition by Mr. Michel Bépoix, Fondation Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, 2014, described and reproduced in colour page 144
- Survage abstrait ou cubiste ?, catalogue of the exhibition by Daniel Abadie, Somogy Editions d'Art, described and reproduced in color at p. 54
- Will be reproduced in the forthcoming Catalogue raisonné of Léopold Survage beeing prepared by Mr. Eric Brosset
Certificate of authenticity by Mr. Eric Brosset dated May 11th 2010
From 1914 Survage effected stays in Nice and began his famous Rose Period, the highest point of his career, which lasted until the end of the first war.
In Nice, Survage is surprised by the flight of seagulls that enter the city, thanks to this simple anecdote that the bird became one of its main pictorial themes.
Our painting is part of a small series of 13 works of this period.
SURVAGE 1925
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
SURVAGE 1924
The Art Institute, Chicago, U.S.A.