Lot 256
  • 256

Serge Poliakoff

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Serge Poliakoff
  • Composition grise, brune et jaune (Rivière IX)
  • etching
  • plate: 647 by 496 mm 25 1/2 by 19 1/2 in
  • sheet: 760 by 565 mm 30 by 22 1/4 in
Etching with aquatint printed in colors, 1962, signed in pencil, numbered 11/75, on BFK Rives wove paper, framed

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's New York, November 2, 2001, lot 506

Condition

The print is in good condition, with full margins. Some mat-stain and a few specks of foxing in the margins. Small 1/2 tear at lower left margin. The verso in good condition with old masking tape hinges in the edges, just showing through. The heavily printed areas on showing through on verso. Traces of red printing ink.
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