(Moscow, 1879 - Paris, 1968)
Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1915
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Signed and dated lower right L. Surwage / 1915
Stamp of the Survage Studio lower right ATELIER SURVAGE
37 x 31 cm
Certificate of authenticity by Mrs. Anne-Marie Di Vieto, niece of the artist, Rome, November 26, 2018
From 1914, Survage made stays in Nice and began his famous Pink Period, the culmination of his career, which lasted until the end of the first war. In this respect, the artist wrote: "It was in the wonderful Côte d'Azur that one day I had the desire to fix in a painting, on a canvas, what I saw and loved around me. ... »
Survage's masterpiece of this period is Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1915, in the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.