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Leopold Survage
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description
- Leopold Survage
- Cosmic Landscape, 1953
- signed Survage. and dated 53. (lower right); variously stamped and inscribed, including G, 35, 728 and Paysage Cosmique I, labeled Au Pont des Arts Survage No 27 25 Fig. 1955, 1, and Paysage Cosmique 94 for exhibition at the Musée Galleria in Paris (on the reverse)
casein tempera on panel
- 25 1/2 by 31 3/4 in.
- 64.5 by 80.5 cm
Exhibited
Paris, Au Pont des Arts, Galerie Lucie Weill, Survage, 1960s, no. 27
Paris, Musée Galliera, Rétrospective Survage, April-May 1966, no. 94
Paris, Musée Galliera, Rétrospective Survage, April-May 1966, no. 94
Condition
The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com , an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's.
This work on plywood is in respectable condition. There are some retouches addressing old scratches in the upper center, almost entirely in the black background, which could be approached more seriously. There is also a retouch in the ochre form and blue strip in the upper right. Other than a couple of other tiny cosmetic retouches, there are no other restorations. This picture will improve if the restoration were to be reexamined.
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Catalogue Note
Survage's Cosmic Landscape echoes Wassily Kandinsky's abstract forms, with shattered images born from a suspended background of space and intersecting lines. Survage explains, "I chose an object or a landscape accordingly. For a curved line, I chose a bolting horse with a man who chased it, and these curved lines well characterized the incident, this flight" (Greer Gallery, New York, 1968, p. 11). Movement and action are caught within the confines of the curved lines—bursts of energy and light against a static, immobile background.