Serge Poliakoff

Serge Poliakoff 1900 - 1969 Composition multicolore. 1950. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right. 62 x 50 cm (24.4 x 19.6 in). [AW]. • A compelling early composition—beginning in 1950, Poliakoff expanded his palette to include vibrant yet contrasting hues. • A captivating and dynamic interplay of color and geometry. • The radiant works from the 1950s are the artist’s most sought-after pieces on the international auction market. • Paintings from the 1950s are held in major museum collections, including the Tate Modern, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. • Part of a distinguished Berlin private collection for nearly 40 years. Accompanied by a photographic certificate of authenticity issued by Alexis Poliakoff, Paris, on April 10, 1987. The work is registered in the archive there under the number “950006”. PROVENANCE: Nuova BrerArte, Milan. Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1986). From a German collection (acquired from the above). LITERATURE: Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 1: 1922–1954, Paris 2004, CR no. 50-04 (with color illustration on p. 336). “Many people say that there is nothing to see in abstract painting. If it were up to me, I could live three times as long and still not have said everything I see.” Serge Poliakoff, quoted from: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Issue 31, no. 21, III 1995, p. 2 Called up: December 5, 2026 - ca. 17.56 h +/- 20 min.

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