20th Century, Serge Poliakoff, Lithograph, Blue Composition, Yellow and Red

Serge Poliakoff
Moscow 1900 - 1969 Paris
Composition bleue, jaune et rouge, 1965
Color lithograph in 10 colors
Right hand signed in pencil lower
bottom left limited ''20/75''
Presentation: 61 x 46.5 cm
Setting: 99 x 81 cm
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Publisher: Gallery Dina Vierny, Paris
Works Poliakoff / Schneider 47
Handmade frame, acid free matting, museum glass

Very rare leaf that was used on the front page of the catalog raisonné of the graphic by Serge Poliakoff.

The Russian painter Serge Poliakoff, born in Moscow on January 8, 1900 is considered an important representative of the Ecole de Paris. In 1917 he fled the Russian Revolution by Konstantin Opel, gets to Paris in 1923, where until a few years he spends his life. earning first as a musician's livelihood, it begins simultaneously with an intensive study of the painting. From 1929 on, he is in the Paris academies Forchot and de la Grande Chaumiere enrolled, 1935 where he spent two years at the Slade School of Art in London. At first he produced variations of academic traditions and predominantly figurative motifs such as nudes, houses, trees u.ä .. After 1935 Poliakoff increasingly turned towards abstract art, employing color as color without any figurative context. A decisive influence in this direction by Kandinsky, whom he met on his return to Paris. Sonia and Robert Delaunay taught him to appreciate the emotive quality of color, interest in simultaneous contrasts aroused. The sculptor Otto Freundlich from compositions color form relevant Poliakoff's pictorial language with its curved. Poliakoff developed a very individual form of abstract painting colorful color next to each other. In the 1940s, he remains in the gray-brown color range, later, from 1950, he expanded his palette including bright contrasting tones. In his late work, it reduces the polychrome on earthy nuances and shows a more monochrome. Poliakoff's paintings were shown at international exhibitions in the 50s and 60s, after naturalization in France in 1962, the artist gets his own room at the Venice Biennale. In the late years a number of lithographs, to which Poliakoff devoted particular from 1962, as well as paintings created smaller format because the artist must preserve after a heart attack 1965th On October 12, 1969 Serge Poliakoff died in Paris.