Sale 5683
London
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24 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 47,700
Estimate
Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969) Composition signed (lower right) and dated '53 VI oil on canvas 25 5/8 x 21 1/4in. (65 x 54cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Bing, Paris. René de Montaigu, Paris.
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Exhibited
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Von Bonnard bis Heute, no. 93. Paris, Galerie Bing, Serge Poliakoff, 1954.
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