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Serge Poliakoff

Composition en vert

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Estimate

90,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Serge Poliakoff

1900 - 1969


Composition en vert

signed and dated 54 (lower right); signed and dated 1954 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

73 by 60.2 cm. 28¾ by 23¾ in.

framed: 88.7 by 76.5 cm. 34⅞ by 30⅛ in.

Executed in 1954.

Eknayan Collection, Paris

Drouout Richelieu, Maîtres Ader, Piccard & Tajan, Paris, 22 March 1985, lot 25

Private Collection

Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner

Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1922-1954, Paris 2004, no. 54-33, p. 494, illustrated in colour

Bern, Kunsthalle, Serge Poliakoff, April - May 1960, no. 70

Colmar, Musée d’Unterlinden, Serge Poliakoff, June - October 1971, no. 10 (exhibited in diptych)