Serge Poliakoff

Ragnar Moltzau, Oslo
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Galleri K, Oslo
Vente : Hauswedell & Nolte, Kunst nach 1945, 12 juin 1993, lot 333
Vente : Christian de Quay, Paris, Importants tableaux XIX et Modernes, 9 juin 1994, lot 363
Galerie Applicat-Prazan, Paris
Collection particulière, Paris

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Serge Poliakoff, 1970
Hovikodden, Sonja Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Poliakoff, 1976; catalogue, no.19
Paris, Galerie Applicat-Prazan, L’Ecole de Paris des années 50, 2002; illustré sur l’invitation

Bernard Dorival, Les Peintres du XXe siècle – du Cubisme à l’Abstrait, Paris, 1957, p.123, illustré en couleurs
Bernard Dorival, Histoire universelle de la Peinture, 2 volumes, Paris, 1957, illustré en couleurs sur la couverture
Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1922-1954, Paris, 2004, p.386, no.51-64, illustré en couleurs

The colors are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. This work is executed on its original canvas and is not relined. Few scattered thin cracks, located especially in the white cream, yellow and blue impastos, are visible under close inspection. Few minor retouchings are only visible under UV light inspection : - minor ones along the edges - pinhead sized ones dispersed around the center of the work This work is in very good condition.
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Dans la nature il y a des formes définies, parentes entre elles mais jamais identiques. Ces formes géométriques, plastiques, organiques et celles qui sont, pour ainsi dire l'Oeuvre du temps et qui précèdent l'Histoire. Toutes ces formes doivent se retrouver dans la composition du tableau.
Serge Poliakoff in Serge Poliakoff, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1970, p.18