Picture "Composition in Red and Blue" (1967)
Picture "Composition in Red and Blue" (1967)
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limited, 75 copies | signed | numbered | colour etching | framed | size 89.5 x 70.5 cm
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Picture "Composition in Red and Blue" (1967)
Starting from the 1950s, Poliakoff employed a purely abstract vocabulary of geometric colour surfaces: He practically made the differently coloured asymmetric shapes collide within the picture. In luminous and contrasting tones, these elements, as in the offered "Composition in Red and Blue", fit together like pieces of a puzzle, creating a work full of balance and absolute harmony.
Colour etching, 1967. 75 copies, numbered and signed. Offered here: E.A copy. Catalogue raisonné Schneider XXXII. motif size 60.5 x 43.5 cm. Sheet size 75 x 55 cm. Size in frame: 89.5 x 70.5 cm as shown.
About Serge Poliakoff
1900-1969
The fact that Serge Poliakoff received a comprehensive musical education in his youth and was devoted to music throughout his whole life is also evident in his painting. Poliakoff did not simply paint – he was a composer of colours and forms.
He was born in Russia but ended up in Paris in 1923. Initially inclined towards representational painting, abstraction increasingly took up space in his work from 1935 onwards. Poliakoff developed into a painter who was able to contrast incredibly fine nuances of colour and create pictures full of lightness and deep poetry based solely on the arrangement of the colour fields. In 1937, he began to exhibit his work. From 1950 onwards, he was one of the established abstract artists and most important representatives of the École de Paris and exhibited at the documenta, and was given his own dedicated room for his paintings at the Venice Biennale, among others.
The fascination for his paintings is everlasting. Poliakoff’s works are among the most sought-after pieces internationally. To this day, his paintings and lithographs remain as relevant and popular as ever. According to a 2012 statement by the German newspaper Handelsblatt no exhibition would be complete without a work by the abstract artist, who was already celebrated during his lifetime.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.