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.
The designer and decorator shows us around his Santa Monica HQ, and enthuses over the forthcoming Rooms as Portraits auctions in London and New York
Chinese Works of Art specialist Olivia Hamilton reckons this pair of superb sculptures — around 1,300 years old — are ‘the finest I've seen come up for sale‘