Sale 5683
London
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24 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 20,700
Estimate
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969) Composition signed (lower left) oil on canvas 28 1/2 x 23 1/2in. (72.4 x 59.7cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1973.
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Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Denise René, Serge Poliakoff, February-March 1950.
To be included in the forthcoming Serge Poliakoff Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Alexis Poliakoff, the artist's son.
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