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Lot 22
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SERGE POLIAKOFF | Composition abstraite

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Serge Poliakoff
  • Composition abstraite
  • gouache on paper touched up with tempera
  • 61,5 x 47 cm; 24 3/16 x 18 3/16 in.
signedgouache on paper touched up with temperaExecuted in 1960-1966.

Provenance

Knodler & Co., New York
Private Collection, France
Sale: Artcurial, Art Contemporain, 30 May 2012, lot 45
Acquired from the above sale by the current owner

Exhibited

Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery; Osaka, Fuji Television Gallery, Serge Poliakoff, 19 May - 20 July 1978; catalogue, no. 45, illustrated

Literature

Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff, Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Volume V 1966-1969, Paris, 2016, p. 129, no. 60-136, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the red is deeper in the original work. The work is attached to the passe-partout with white tape. In the white background, few small areas with a different texture present minor uplifts, especially above the blue motif.
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