Three Women
Catalogue
- Year
- 1928
- Dimensions
- 47.5 × 63 cm (18 3/4 × 24 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Léopold Survage
Artist
Painting
Léopold Survage was a French painter and filmmaker whose work pioneered abstract animation in the early twentieth century. He developed a distinctive approach to color abstraction through oil painting and experimental film, creating geometric compositions that moved between pure abstraction and organic form. His practice bridged painting, printmaking, and cinema, exploring rhythm and movement as fundamental pictorial elements. Active from the 1910s through the 1960s, Survage maintained a rigorous formal vocabulary centered on the relationship between color, line, and temporal sequence.
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Hommage à Roger Lacourière
1968 · Illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint
Plate (folio 46) from Hommage à Roger Lacourière
1968 · Etching from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint
In-text plate (folio 23) from Poésie de mots inconnus
1949 · Woodcut from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut
Standing Female Nude
1930 · Pen and black ink on cream wove paper, discolored to tan
Hand Holding Cloth
1929 · Oil on canvas
Face Holding a Leaf
1929 · Oil on canvas
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- Léopold Survage
- Year
- 1928
- Dimensions
- 47.5 × 63 cm (18 3/4 × 24 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1928-068411
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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