Composition

Details

Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969)
Composition
signé 'SERGE POLIAKOFF' (en bas à droite)
huile sur toile
65 x 81 cm.
Peint en 1966.

signed 'SERGE POLIAKOFF' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in.
Painted in 1966.

Provenance

Collection Madame Charles Gombault, Paris
Collection privée, Genève
Collection Primrose Bordier
Vente anonyme, Binoche & Godeau, Paris, 8 mars 1996, lot 10
Acquis lors de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel

Literature

in Elle, septembre 1968 (illustré en couleurs p. 69).
in Journal de la Maison, 1973, No. 67-68 (illustré en couleurs).
in Votre Beauté, mai 1977, No. 502 (illustré en couleurs).
in L'Œil du Décorateur, tome II, Paris, 1977 (illustré en couleurs pp. 116-117).
A. Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff Catalogue Raisonné, Volume V, 1966-1969, Paris, 2016, No. 66-176 (illustré en couleurs p. 146).

Exhibited

Saint-Gall, The Kunstmuseum Saint-Gall, Rétrospective Serge Poliakoff, juin-juillet 1966, No. 114.

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Lot Essay

« Dans la nature, il y a des formes déformées, parentes entre elles, mais jamais identiques. Les formes géométriques, plastiques, organiques, et celles qui sont pour ainsi dire l´œuvre des temps qui précèdent l´histoire. Toutes ces formes doivent se retrouver dans la composition du tableau. Et le peintre doit réfléchir longuement, très longuement, avant de commencer la composition de son tableau. »
“In nature, there are distorted forms that are related to each other, but never identical. Geometric, plastic and organic forms, and those which are, so to speak, the work of times preceding history. All these forms must be found in the painting's composition. And the painter must think long, very long, before starting to compose his painting. "
SERGE POLIAKOFF

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