Sale: 600 / Evening Sale, Dec. 05. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 123000193
Lot 123000193 
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123000193
Serge Poliakoff
Composition, 1955.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 140,000 - 180,000
$ 163,800 - 210,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Composition. 1955.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. 81 x 100 cm (31.8 x 39.3 in).
• Strong contrasts and unique, angular surfaces make for an extremely distinctive, impasto color puzzle with a tactile surface texture.
• Poliakoff ingeniously breaks up the cold blue tones with a dominant warm-toned color center.
• Part of a German private collection for more than 25 years.
• The artist's vibrant paintings from the 1950s are his most sought after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Similar paintings from the 1950s can be found in major museum collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Modern, London, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., as well as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by Alexis Poliakoff on March 5, 1999 (in copy).
PROVENANCE: Galerie Blanche, Stockholm.
Private collection Åberg, Stockholm.
Galerie Sander, Darmstadt.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1999).
Since then in family ownership.
LITERATURE: Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2: 1955-1958, Paris 2010, p. 77, CR no. 55-32 (illustrated).
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right. 81 x 100 cm (31.8 x 39.3 in).
• Strong contrasts and unique, angular surfaces make for an extremely distinctive, impasto color puzzle with a tactile surface texture.
• Poliakoff ingeniously breaks up the cold blue tones with a dominant warm-toned color center.
• Part of a German private collection for more than 25 years.
• The artist's vibrant paintings from the 1950s are his most sought after works on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Similar paintings from the 1950s can be found in major museum collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Tate Modern, London, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., as well as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Accompanied by a photo expertise issued by Alexis Poliakoff on March 5, 1999 (in copy).
PROVENANCE: Galerie Blanche, Stockholm.
Private collection Åberg, Stockholm.
Galerie Sander, Darmstadt.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the above in 1999).
Since then in family ownership.
LITERATURE: Alexis Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2: 1955-1958, Paris 2010, p. 77, CR no. 55-32 (illustrated).
123000193
Serge Poliakoff
Composition, 1955.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 140,000 - 180,000
$ 163,800 - 210,600
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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