Serge Poliakoff - "Blue and red composition"
Original Lithograph (From the portfolio "San Lazzaro et ses Amis")
Limited edition lithograph in colours on Arches vellum paper.
Printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris, 1975.
Not signed or numbered, Edition of 500.
Sheet dimensions: 35.5 x 26.5 cm.
Lithograph dimensions: 31 x 24 cm.
Very good condition.
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Serge Poliakoff (1900 – 1969) was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' École de Paris (Tachisme).
His paintings remained purely academic until he discovered, during his stay in London from 1935 to 1937, the abstract art and luminous colours of the Egyptian sarcophagi.It was a little afterwards that he met Wassily Kandinsky, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, and Otto Freundlich. Poliakoff held his first one-man Paris exhibition in 1945.
With these influences, Poliakoff quickly came to be considered one of the most powerful painters of his generation. In 1947, he was trained by Jean Deyrolle in Gordes in the Vaucluse region of France amongst peers such as Gérard Schneider, Émile Gilioli, Victor Vasarely, and Jean Dewasne.