- Artist
- Serge Poliakoff 1906–1969
- Original title
- Composition abstraite
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1159 × 889 mm
frame: 1236 × 965 × 70 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1961
- Reference
- T00404
Catalogue entry
Serge Poliakoff 1906-1969
T00404 Composition abstraite
(Abstract Composition) 1954
Inscribed 'SERGE POLIAKOFF' b.l. and 'SERGE POLIAKOFF | 1954' on back of canvas
Oil on canvas, 45 5/8 x 35 (116 x 89)
Purchased from the artist through M. Knoedler & Co., Paris (Grant-in-Aid) 1961
Exh:
Art from France, San Francisco Museum of Art, October-December 1956 (works not numbered, repr.) as 'Abstract Composition'; Art Center, La Jolla, December 1956-February 1957 (works not numbered, repr.); Los Angeles County Museum, February-March 1957 (works not numbered, repr.); The 5th International Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, May-June 1959, and tour to Osaka, Takamatsu, Yawata, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Ube, Saseho and Nakamura until November 1959 (59, repr. in illustrated souvenir, French section n.p.); Serge Poliakoff, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, September-November 1970 (40); R?trospective Poliakoff, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, September-November 1975 (17)
Repr:
Cahiers d'Art, 1956-7, p.350, wrongly dated 1953; Dora Vallier, Serge Poliakoff
(Paris 1959), pl.27, wrongly dated 1953
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.616, reproduced p.616
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