SERGE POLIAKOFF | Composition abstraite

Galerie Carrefour, Brussels
Collection Z, Brussels (acquired from the above) 

Brussels, Galerie Carrefour, Serge Poliakoff, 19 April - 20 May 1967

Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume V, 1966-1969, Paris, 2016, p.245, no.67-130, illustrated in colour

While, from close up, the whole composition encircles the centre; seen from a distance, it separates from it; as if the construction was designed to give it special emphasis. Once this double effect is appreciated, you can see that it provides the key to the work. For, if it affords a monumental aspect to each Poliakoff picture independently from format, it explains the redistribution (...) which reduces composition in favour of form. Dora Vallier