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Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)
Lot 315

Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)

Composition abstraite

Closed15 October 2010

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GBP 229,250

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Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)
Composition abstraite
signed 'Serge Poliakoff' (lower right)
oil on canvas
63¾ x 51¼in. (162 x 130cm.)
Painted in 1967

Galerie Cavalero, Cannes.
Lefebre Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Germann Auktionhaus Zurich, 17 November 1998, lot 40.
Anon. sale, Germann Auktionhaus Zurich, 23 November 2004, lot 31.
Opera Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

Form goes on towards infinity and can become a monumental fresco look at the form in the centre: immobile, silent that's what I look for If I begin the composition from the centre, the painting, no matter how great the dimensions, becomes very small.

Serge Poliakoff, as quoted in F. Brtsch, Serge Poliakoff (1900- 1969), Editions et Calendes, Neuchbtel, 1993, p. 37.