# Léopold Survage artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1879-07-31
- Death date: 1968-10-31
- Nationality: French
- Movements: Cubism, Russian avant-garde
- Common media: Painting, Engraving, Lithography, Illustration and design

## Portrait

![Léopold Survage](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Amedeo_Modigliani_-_Portrait_of_the_Artist_L%C3%A9opold_Survage_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1280px-Amedeo_Modigliani_-_Portrait_of_the_Artist_L%C3%A9opold_Survage_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)
Amedeo Modigliani · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amedeo_Modigliani_-_Portrait_of_the_Artist_L%C3%A9opold_Survage_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

## About Léopold Survage

Léopold Survage (1879–1968) was a French painter and designer whose career connected Moscow, the Russian avant-garde, and Paris. Authority records also associate him with engraving, illustration, and lithography. Public biographical sources describe his Finnish origin and his later identification with French artistic life. In Paris, Survage shared a studio with Amedeo Modigliani and explored abstract film ideas, while his work also intersected with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes through commissions and design activity. He is commonly encountered in discussions of Cubism and early twentieth-century abstraction, although the surviving market record spans more than one medium and category. Collectors may therefore find paintings alongside works on paper, prints, illustrations, and design-related material. For identification, the artist's name, medium, date, signature, provenance, and relationship to documented periods are important starting points.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, works on paper, prints, engravings, lithographs, illustrations, designs, mixed-media objects, and editioned or decorative works. Survage's association with Cubism, Russian avant-garde experimentation, abstract film concepts, and Ballets Russes-related design makes the period and function of a work especially relevant to identification. Buyers should distinguish an original painting or drawing from a print, reproduction, illustration, or design document, and record dimensions, inscriptions, edition details, and provenance.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily records show a substantial public auction history for Léopold Survage across paintings, works on paper, prints, mixed media, and editions. A meaningful appraisal comparison should match the work's medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, signature, inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition history, and attribution confidence. Subject matter and rarity may also matter when comparable examples are available. Auction results are evidence for comparison, not a guaranteed value: public databases can omit private transactions, contain incomplete feeds, or reflect later attribution changes. Authentication and first-hand condition review remain important for an individual work.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734172
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/17229932/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027152057
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5735
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3150.html
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008491
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_Survage
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9opold_Survage
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/leopold-survage/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amedeo_Modigliani_-_Portrait_of_the_Artist_L%C3%A9opold_Survage_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg