Lot 785
  • 785

SERGE POLIAKOFF | Composition abstraite

Estimate
700,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
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Description

  • Serge Poliakoff
  • Composition abstraite
  • signed in Russian (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 73 by 60 cm; 28 ¾ by 23 ⅝ in.
executed in 1966Galerie Edouard Smith label stamped on the stretcher on the reverse 

Provenance

Galerie Edouard Smith, Paris
Collection of Marcel and Liliane Pollak, Paris
Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1995, Lot 112
Germann Auctions, Zurich, 26 March 1996, Lot 57
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 2 December 1996, Lot 143 
Acquired directly from the above by the former private German collector
Private European Collection 
Private Collection

Literature

Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff: Catalogue Raisonné Volume V 1966-1969, Edition Galerie Française, Munich, 2016, no. 66-272, p. 179

Condition

The painting surface has recently been cleaned, and the work is overall in good condition. Conservation report is available upon request.
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