25. Léopold SURVAGE (1879-1968) Water carrier in Collioure, 1926 Oil on cardboard. Signed and dated 26 lower right. 40 x 32 cm. Madame Anne-Marie Di Vieto has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this from a photograph. Provenance: Paris, Ader-Picard-Tajan sale, June 19, 1974, lot 185. A northern painter of Russian and Finnish origins, Léopold Survage discovered the Mediterranean lights in Nice, where he during the First World War. War. It was in Collioure, between 1925 and 1932, his palette brightened and he introduced introduced surrealism into his work. The composition Surrealist Landscape, 1926 plays with deceptive geometry. Geometric shapes interlock to simulate to simulate both perspective and impossible planes. Several receding structure the painting, offering the eye the eye an imaginary village. The tree and are represented by simple, rounded green shapes, bringing a touch of freshness freshness to this almost desert-like landscape. The female figure in the foreground, is reminiscent of the caryatids caryatids of ancient Greece. In Survage's Survage's paintings of this period fisherwomen, fish traders or water carriers or water carriers, as in our work. our work. It perfectly illustrates what Apollinaire understood when he saw Survage's surrealist works by Survage Survage's first Surrealist works: "No one before Survage a single canvas an entire city with the interior of its houses.