Lot 198
  • 198

Serge Poliakoff

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Serge Poliakoff
  • Composition Abstraite
  • signed
  • gouache on paper
  • 48 by 63cm.; 18 7/8 by 24 3/4 in.
  • Executed circa 1962.

Provenance

Lord Strauss, London
Private Collection, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2006

Literature

Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume III, 1959-1962, Munich 2004, p. 323, no. 62-105, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and more vibrant in the original. Condition: Unexamined out of its frame, this work is in very good condition. The sheet is attached verso to the frame along the edges, and undulates very slightly.
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