Serge Poliakoff 1906 - 1969

Serge Poliakoff was born in Moscow, Russia in 1906. He left Russia in 1919 and lived in Constantinople, Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna and Berlin, before settling in Paris in 1923. He studied painting in Paris while supporting himself as a musician before moving to London in 1935 and studying at the Slade School of Art. He returned to Paris in 1937 and made his first abstractions in 1938 after meeting Kandinsky and Robert and Sonia Delaunay. He had his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie L'Esquisse, Paris in 1945 and became a French national in 1962. Poliakoff died in Paris in 1969."

works in the collection - 1

PAC/093

Composition, 1959