Outstanding avant-garde painter Leopold Survage was of Finnish and Danish descent. He worked in many different artistic forms, from cubism to expressionism and from surrealism to abstraction, and was a very successful and significant painter and printmaker. Survage was one of the pioneers of Russian avant-garde art, and his works are now highly sought after by antique dealers that buy antiques around the world. 

He completed art studies in Moscow and Paris, found employment in France, and joined the Paris School of painting. Because his father was a Finn and the proprietor of Leopold Friedrich Sturzvag's Moscow piano factory in Lappeenranta, he was surrounded by art as a child. But after receiving a commercial education and reassessing his life in the wake of a serious illness, he made the decision to devote himself fully to the art. Since then, he has worked as a muralist, painter, graphic designer, expert in theatrical scenery, book illustrator, and other things. Survage's work, in addition to being positively estimated by antique valuations, is sure to attract the attention of people who plan to buy antique art of extraordinary cultural value.

Survage developed the theory of shifting abstract color shapes and created the Parisian cubist and abstractionist group known as the "Golden Section." The artist was well-liked by the government, received awards and recognition on a grand scale, and was elevated to the rank of officer in the Legion of Honor. In metropolitan environments, landscapes, flowers, trees, and birds were frequently depicted in paintings. Through the dissection of natural objects into its component elements, Survage was able to preserve the integrity of the pictorial space. Leopold Survage is most known for his vibrant, evocative abstract paintings, many of which regularly depicted commonplace objects and people in abstract, non-realistic shapes and patterns. He frequently employed a wide range of brilliant colors and various conflicting hues to create amazing visual compositions. The avant-garde movement was pioneered by Survage, whose works frequently incorporated cubism, expressionism, surrealism, and even abstraction. As a result, his paintings are visually striking and emotionally charged, which gives more reasons to buy antique oil paintings he created. The painter distinguished himself from other movement imitators by selecting a color scheme that was primarily light in tone, fairly vivid, but not obviously obnoxious.

^{Leopold Survage.  Colored Rhythm. 1913. Source: wikiart}

Leopold Survage created cubist paintings as well as a variety of dynamic abstractions. The creator came up with "color music" by using static painting to provide the impression of animation. At the end of the 1930s, Survage's interest in mysticism and symbols increased because of his close friendship with A. Masson. As a result, the curvilinear elements that had traditionally held the artist's compositions were once again under the direction of a relatively strict geometric framework. One of the first artists to employ collages and montages, he gave his work a distinctive and appealing appearance. Additionally, he was a master of line and color, frequently combining the two to produce complex, dramatic compositions. His works made a significant contribution to the world of selling antiques and were installed in galleries and museums around the world, in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum in Athens.

^{Cover image: Léopold Survage, La ville. Circa 1912. Source: wikipedia}