Lot 31
  • 31

Serge Poliakoff

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 EUR
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Description

  • Serge Poliakoff
  • Composition Bleu Rouge et Mauve
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 100 by 81cm.; 39 3/8 by 31 7/8 in.
  • Executed in 1963.

Provenance

Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
Acquired directly from the above by Alexander Orlow for the Peter Stuyvesant Collection in 1964

Exhibited

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Le Musée dans l'Usine, Collection Peter Stuyvesant, 1966
Quebec, Museum (& travelling), Art in the Factory / Le Musée dans l'Usine, 1968-1969
Sankt Gallen, Kunstmuseum (& travelling), Le Musée dans l' Usine, 1970-1971
The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Peter Stuyvesant Collectie, 1972
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Art Works: International Modern Art in the Industrial Working Environment, an Experiment over more than Thirty Years: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, 1991-1992, pp. 42, 137, illustrated in colour
Barcelona, Fondación Miró; Zaragoza, Palacio de la Lonja; Valencia, Museo de la Ciudad, El Arte Funciona, 1992
Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, l'Art Actif, 1992
Zevenaar, Liemers Museum, Peter Stuyesant Collectie, 2000

Literature

Harry Abrams, Hans Jaffé, et al., Adventure in Art, An International Group of Art Collections in Industrial Environments, Milan & Amsterdam 1970, p. 124, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is deeper and richer in the original work. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The canvas would appear to have been relined, and there is canvas draw in all four corners. One crack of 9cm professionally restored with retouches, located 60cm from the lower edge and 28cm from the left edge, only visible under ultraviolet light.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Alexis Poliakoff