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Serge Poliakoff, Red and Blue Composition, San Lazzaro et ses Amis, 1975 (after)1975
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About the Item
This exquisite lithograph after Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969), titled Composition rouge et bleue (Red and Blue Composition), from the album San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateur de la revue XXe siecle (San Lazzaro and His Friends, Tribute to the Founder of the Journal XXe Siecle), originates from the 1975 edition published by XXe siecle, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, October 1975. Composition rouge et bleue reflects Poliakoff’s mastery of chromatic harmony and spatial equilibrium, uniting deep reds and blues in an abstract dialogue that evokes rhythm, stillness, and transcendence. Through interlocking planes of color and subtle tonal gradations, the composition reveals the meditative power of his abstraction—poetic, architectural, and spiritual in its balance of form and emotion.
Executed as a lithograph on velin d'Arches paper, this work measures 10.5 x 14 inches (26.67 x 35.56 cm). Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition demonstrates the masterful craftsmanship of the Mourlot Freres atelier, renowned for its collaborations with the leading modern artists of the 20th century.
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969)
Title: Composition rouge et bleue (Red and Blue Composition), from San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateur de la revue XXe siecle, 1975
Medium: Lithograph on velin d'Arches paper
Dimensions: 10.5 x 14 inches (26.67 x 35.56 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1975
Publisher: XXe siecle, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Catalogue raisonne references: Poliakoff, Alexis, and Gerard Schneider. Serge Poliakoff: Werkverzeichnis Der Graphik: Catalogue Raisonne Des Estampes: Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints. Edition Galerie Francaise, 1998, illustration 68.
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the album San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateur de la revue XXe siecle, published by XXe siecle, Paris, October 1975
Notes:
Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Finished printing in Paris in October 1975. This album has been printed on velin d'Arches in DLXXV numbered examples. The LXXV original examples include a series of VIII original lithographs, signed and numbered by the artists. In addition, LV examples were printed for artists, authors, friends and collaborators of XXe siecle. The typography is from l'Imprimerie Union in Paris; the lithographs of Max Bill, Marc Chagall, Hans Hartung, Braque, Fontana, Magnelli, Picasso, Magritte and Poliakoff were printed by Fernand Mourlot in Paris; those of Alexander Calder and Joan Miro by l'imprimerie Arte in Paris; that of Max Ernst by Pierre Chave in Vence; that of Zao Wou-Ki by ateliers Bellini in Paris; and that of Henry Moore by the Curwen Studio in London.
About the Publication:
San Lazzaro et ses Amis, Hommage au fondateur de la revue XXe siecle (San Lazzaro and His Friends, Tribute to the Founder of the Journal XXe Siecle), published in 1975 by XXe siecle, Paris, stands as one of the defining collaborations between artists and the great art publishers of the postwar era. Conceived as a tribute to Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, the visionary editor of XXe Siecle, the portfolio brought together original lithographs by leading figures of modernism including Picasso, Chagall, Miro, Calder, Hartung, Moore, and Poliakoff. Printed by the most renowned ateliers of Paris—Mourlot, Arte, Bellini, and others—the album epitomizes the artistic unity and creative vitality of the European avant-garde.
About the Artist:
Serge Poliakoff (1900–1969) was a Russian-born French painter celebrated as one of the most important masters of postwar abstraction, whose luminous interlocking color fields and meditative compositions bridged the emotional depth of lyrical abstraction with the structural harmony of geometric modernism. Born in Moscow, he fled the Russian Revolution in 1917 and settled in Paris in 1923, immersing himself in the city’s avant-garde milieu alongside Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray—artists who were collectively reshaping the modernist vision of art through form, color, and conceptual experimentation. Deeply influenced by Kandinsky’s spiritual abstraction, Miro’s biomorphic lyricism, and Picasso’s revolutionary structure, Poliakoff synthesized these currents into his own contemplative language of color and form. He studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere and Academie Frochot, where encounters with Sonia and Robert Delaunay in the 1930s inspired him to explore chromatic simultaneity—the rhythm and resonance of color as music. By the 1940s, he had developed his signature style: balanced yet asymmetrical compositions of overlapping color planes that pulse with depth, tension, and stillness. His works, neither gestural nor mathematical, embodied a poetic synthesis of intuition and structure—each painting a meditation on the equilibrium between form, silence, and light. As a key figure in the Nouvelle Ecole de Paris alongside Nicolas de Stael, Jean Bazaine, and Alfred Manessier, Poliakoff helped renew European modernism in the aftermath of war, offering a serene counterpoint to the emotional volatility of American Abstract Expressionism. His abstraction—spiritual, architectural, and profoundly musical—was guided by a belief that color could convey universal emotion. Exhibiting at Documenta II in Kassel (1959) and the Venice Biennale (1962), Poliakoff achieved international acclaim, earning the Legion d’Honneur and retrospectives at major museums including the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern, and the Guggenheim. His influence can be traced in the color field paintings of Mark Rothko, the formal restraint of Ellsworth Kelly, and the rhythmic geometry of Sean Scully and Brice Marden. Like Kandinsky and Miro, he saw abstraction as a path to transcendence; like Duchamp and Man Ray, he pursued innovation as a spiritual act. Standing alongside Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, Serge Poliakoff remains a cornerstone of modern abstraction—an artist whose radiant harmonies transformed geometry into emotion and color into pure thought. His highest auction record was achieved by Composition abstraite (1969), which sold for $4.5 million USD at Christie’s, Paris, on June 7, 2021, reaffirming Serge Poliakoff’s enduring legacy as one of the most refined, visionary, and collectible abstract painters of the 20th century.
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- Creation Year:1975
- Dimensions:Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)
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- After:Serge Poliakoff (1900 - 1969, Russian)
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- Gallery Location:Southampton, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1465216670622
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