A Kaleidoscopic Gouache by Serge Poliakoff

Published on 13 May 2022, by Sophie Reyssat

Auction on 14 June 2022 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 5 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Shapes and colors resonate in this 1956 gouache. With a freedom that does not rule out precision, the artist makes space vibrate.

Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969), Abstract Composition, 1956, gouache on paper, signed,... A Kaleidoscopic Gouache by Serge Poliakoff

Serge Poliakoff (1900-1969), Abstract Composition, 1956, gouache on paper, signed, 41 x 56 cm (16 x 22 in).
Estimate: €50,000/70,000

“For the future, I’m betting on Poliakoff,” declared Vassily Kandinsky, who met Serge Poliakoff in Paris in the 1920s, a refuge for exiles fleeing the Russian Revolution, which had broken out three years earlier. Presented in the second volume of Catalogue Raisonné by Thaddée and Alexis Poliakoff, covering 1955-1958, this gouache can…

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