Lot 104
  • 104

Serge Poliakoff

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Serge Poliakoff
  • Composition abstraite
  • signé, daté et numéroté VII
  • gouache sur papier
  • 64 x 49 cm; 25 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.
  • Exécuté en 1953.

Provenance

Knoedler & Co, New York
Collection particulière, Genève

Literature

Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff, Catalogue raisonné, Vol. I 1922-1954, Paris, 2004, p.439, no.53-17, illustré

Condition

Executed on a white wove paper not laid down, glued to the mount at the 4 corners and at the centre of each edge. There is a 5 mm tear perpendicular to the lower edge (19cm from the lower edge). There are some scattered pinhead sized paintlosses especially in the lower half of the composition. This work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed, dated and numbered VII; gouache on paper. Executed in 1953.