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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 22 | $****** - ****** | Composition multicolore |
paintings
62 x 50 cm (24.41 x 19.69 in)
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right
Nuova BrerArte, Milan. Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1986).
Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff Catalogue raisonné, vol. 1: 1922-1954, Paris 2004, CR no. 50-04 (illustrated in color on p. 336). “Many people say that there is nothing to see in abstract painting. If it were up to me, I could live three times as long and still not have said everything I see.” Serge Poliakoff , quoted from: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, volume 31, issue 21, III 1995, p. 2. Called up: December 5, 2025 - ca. 17.42 h +/- 20 min.
Serge Poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff
1900 - 1969
Composition multicolore
1950.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. 62 x 50 cm (24.4 x 19.6 in). [AW].
• Vibrant, early composition - Poliakoff expanded his palette to include bright and contrasting colors in 1950.
• A captivating, dynamic interplay of color and geometry.
• The artist"s colorful works from the 1950s are among his most sought-after pieces on the international auction market.
• Paintings from the 1950s are in leading museum collections, including the Tate Modern, London, the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• Part of an acclaimed private collection in Berlin for almost 40 years
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Accompanied by a photo certificate issued by Alexis Poliakoff, Paris, dated April 10, 1987. The work is registered in the archive with the number “950006.”.
