Lot 42
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Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)
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Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)

Composition

Details
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)
Composition
signed 'Serge Poliakoff' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51 5/8 x 38¼in. (131 x 97cm.)
Painted circa 1957
Provenance
Galerie Bing, Paris.
Galleria Levi, Milan.
Galerie Prazan-Fitoussi, Paris.
Literature
Panorama du Medecin, no. 370, 9 October 1992 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Robert Jacobsen - Serge Poliakoff, January-March 1958, no. 49.
Paris, Galerie Prazan-Fitoussi, 10 Oeuvres Majeures de l'Art Abstrait des Années 50, October-December 1989, no. 8 (illustrated in colour).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

To be included in the forthcoming Serge Poliakoff catalogue raisonné being prepared by Alexis Poliakoff.



"Space, not the artist, must model the forms. They must be part-sculpture, part-architecture. Geometric form must turn into organic form, and it's the inward pressure of space that does that. Space makes form-not the other way round" (Serge Poliakoff quoted in exh. cat., Serge Poliakoff. Retrospective: 1938-1963, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1963, p. 15.)

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