Artwork information

Category

Print

Technique

Color lithography on Arches paper

Date

1973

Dimensions

61 cm x 59 cm

Signature

Signed lower right

Proof(s) of authenticity

Lithograph sold with a certificate of authenticity issued by the publisher Mourlot.

State of conservation

Very good

Framing

No

Location

Paris, France

Description

Color lithograph by Serge Poliakoff. Rare proof of printer on Arches paper. Work signed lower right in the plate and printed by the publisher Mourlot.

The artist

Painter

Serge Poliakoff

Famous artistFamous artist
Painter
Born in 1900
Russia

Bio

Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow on 8 January 1900. He is the thirteenth child of a sibling group of fourteen. From a very young age, his mother took him to church where icons fascinated him. 

Serge Poliakoff enrolled at the Moscow School of Drawing. In 1918, he left Russia and arrived in Constantinople, where he made a hard living as a guitarist. He then passed through Belgrade, Sofia, Vienna and Berlin, before settling in Paris in 1923 where he played in Russian cabarets.

In 1929, Serge Poliakoff enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Initially, he produced paintings that can be described as academic, but a stay in London between 1935 and 1937 introduced him to abstract art. He then became friends with Otto Freundlich, Jean-Michel Coulon, Robert Delaunay, Vassily Kandinsky and Sonia Delaunay.

In 1935, he met the British Marcelle Perreur Loyd, who became his wife and his strongest support.

Serge Poliakoff was quickly considered one of the most powerful painters of his generation, he was free of all figuration. 

In 1962, it is the consecration for the painter, a whole room at the Venice Biennale is reserved for him. The same year, he became French. In 1965, Yves Saint Laurent signed a "Poliakoff" dress.

Serge Poliakoff died in 1969. The following year the artist's first exhibition was held at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.