Pencil Drawing Signed Léopold Survage "bull" 1949

Léopoldovitch Stürzwage called Léopold Survage
 (1879-1968)

"Bull"

Pencil drawing, representing a bull, or a cow :-), monogrammed by the artist and dated 1949 in pencil. Stamp of the Survage workshop
Drawing format 11x15

Originally from Russia, Léopold Survage arrived in Paris in 1908. Very quickly, he became part of the hectic and intoxicating Parisian artistic scene. He attended Matisse's academy, the cubists and the neo-cibists.

He participated in various avant-garde exhibitions. Alongside this artistic avant-garde and inspired by the art of Cézanne and Gauguin, he developed a personal style. His abstract gouaches, exhibited for the first time in 1914, testify to his audacious inventiveness. This dynamic art determined by visual form, rhythm and color made the artist a precursor of cartoons.

Apollinaire, defender of modern art, praised the originality of the young Russian, even predicting an illustrious future for him. He goes so far as to convince him to Frenchify his name to Survage.

From then on, the artist multiplied his participation in Parisian salons. He creates the sets for the Russian ballets. His works are exhibited in museums and galleries in Paris.