Abstract

Artist Serge Poliakoff French, born Russia, 1906–1969

Datecirca 1955

MediumGouache on paper

Dimensionsoverall: 17 3/8 × 23 1/4 in. (44.1 × 59.1 cm)
frame: 24 1/2 × 30 × 1 3/4 in. (62.2 × 76.2 × 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.52

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceThe artist; sold to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1955 (as Composition, inv. no. 1848); sold to William R. Valentiner, New York, NY, 1957; bequeathed to NCMA, 1958, received, 1965.
Published ReferencesMasterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 125, illus. (b-w) 208, fig. 125.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly 26 (Summer 1963), listed 275, illus. (b-w) 259.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 79.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), illus. (b-w) listed and illus. (b-w) 94.
Exhibition Historypossibly New York, NY, M. Knoedler & Co., "Recent Paintings by Serge Poliakoff," Oct. 10-29, 1955.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 125, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Legacy of W. R. Valentiner,” January 27-March 29, 1998.
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