Title: The Streets
Artist: Leopold Survage
Work Date: 1913
Materials: Oil on board
Size: 65 x 54 cm
Additional information: Signed and dated lower right
Provenance: Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA
Exhibitions: Trente ans d'art indépendant, 1884-1914, Exposition Rétrospective, Grand Palais, Paris, 1926
Leopold Survage was born in Moscow in 1879. In his early years he studied piano, and was encouraged to enter the piano factory operated by his Finnish father , completing a commercial diploma in 1897. However, after a serious illness at age 22, Survage rethought his career and entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he attended the studios of K.A. Korovin and L.O. Pasternak.
