*§ SURVAGE, LÉOPOLD (1879-1968) Le Taureau échappé , signed and dated 1928. Oil on canvas, 160.5 by 240.5 cm The present lot is one of two decorative wall panels created by Survage in 1928 for the Union Catholique de Théâtre et de la Musique, Paris. Provenance: Salle de l’Union Catholique de Théâtre et de la Musique, Paris, from 1928. Possibly, with Galerie Françoise Friedrich, Cologne, until 1980. Important private collection, Paris. Anonymous sale; Collection d’un amateur, Tajan, Paris, 19 November 2003, lot 115. Private collection, Europe. Authenticity of the work has been confirmed by the expert Yu. Rybakova. Exhibited: Survage, exposition re?trospective, Musée Galliera, Paris, 6 April–2 May 1966, No. 55. Survage, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, June–September 1968, No. 27. Leopold Survage, Galerie Friedrich, Cologne, 1 March–19 April 1980, No. 4. Literature: S. Putnam, The Glistening Bridge. Leopold Survage and the Spatial Problem in Painting, New York, Covici-Friede, 1929, p. 163, pl. 30, illustrated; p. 10, listed. P. Fierens, Survage, Paris, Editions des Quatre Chemins, 1931, pl. 30, illustrated and listed as Toreau [sic] et Pecheuses. Exhibition catalogue, Survage, exposition re?trospective, Paris, Musée Galliera, 1966, No. 55, listed. Exhibition catalogue, Survage, Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1968, p. 26, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Survage, Cologne, Galerie Françoise Friedrich, 1980, listed and reproduced on the cover. The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by E. Brosset.