POLIAKOFF, SERGE
1900 Moscow - 1969 Paris

Title: Composition.
Date: 1951/1954.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 100 x 65cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower left: SERGE PoLiAKoFF 1951 54. Once more signed and dated verso upper right: SERGE PoLiAKoFF 1951 54.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


Provenance:
- Sammlung Alexis Poliakoff, Paris
- Galerie Melki, Basel (label)
- Private collection Germany

Exhibitions:
- Creuzevault Gallery, Paris 1957
- Kunstverein Hamburg, 1958 (label)
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1958
- Kunsthalle, Bern 1960
- Whitechapel Gallery, London 1963, cat. no. 11 (label)
- Kestner Society, Hanover 1963, cat. no. 11 (label)
- Kunstverein, Bremen 1963
- Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund 1963
- Overbeck Society, Lübeck 1963
- Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1964
- Municipal Museum, Trier 1963
- House of the Municipal Art Collections, Bonn 1964
- Musée Despiau-Wlérick, Mont-de-Marsan 1969
- Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 1970
- Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar 1971
- Musée de Tel-Aviv, 1971/72 (label)
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Copenhagen 1972
- Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo 1972
- Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim 1972
- Lillehammer Bys painting collection, 1972
- Musée d'Art Moderne, Tampere 1972
- Galerie des Arts, Helsinki 1972
- Veranneman Gallery, Brussels 1973
- Musee Fabre, Ville de Montpellier 1974 (label)
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds 1975
- Gallery Melki, Paris 1975
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi 1975
- Sonja Henje-Onstad Art Centre, Hovikodden 1976
- Musée Municipal, Vallauris 1978
- Campredon Art et Culture, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 1986 (label)
- Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny 1987
- The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 1988 (label)
- Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki 1988
- Galerie Melki, Paris 1991/92, cat. no. 13 (label)
- Museum Würth, Künzelsau 1997
- Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1998

Literature:
- Poliakoff, Alexis: Serge Poliakoff - Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II, 1966-1969, Paris 2004, cat. rais. no. 54-101, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg 1958, cat. no. 28 (here differntly titled)
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Skulpturer, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1958, cat. no. 20 (here differently titled)
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Works from 1937-1960, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne 1960, cat. no. 38 (here differently titled)
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover 1963, cat. no. 11 (here differently titled)
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Städtisches Museum, Trier 1963, cat. no. 7 (here differently titled)
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 1970, cat. no. 35, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Serge Poliakoff, Campredon Art et Culture, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue 1986, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Poliakoff, A Retrospective, Museum Würth, Sigmaringen 1997, p. 106, ill.


- Early work with interesting colours
- From a period in which Poliakoff found his own path to abstraction and expanded his palette with luminous tones
- Impressive exhibition history with important exhibitions in Europe and Asia.