About This Artwork

Léopold Survage
French, born Russia, 1879-1968

Hand Holding Cloth, 1929

Oil on canvas
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "SuRvage./29."
Bequest of Mima de Manziarly Porter, 1989.51.6

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Putnam, Samuel, The Glistening Bridge: Léopold Survage and the Spatial Problem in Painting (New York, 1929), pp. ix, 31 (ill.), pl. 8.

Gauthier, Maxilien, Survage (Paris, 1953), n.p. (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report (1988–1989), p. 61.

Ownership History

Mima de Manziarly Porter, Chicago and New York, summer 1930 [Porter Estate document, c. 1938-49, in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1989.