Serge Poliakoff (Russian/French, 1906 - 1969). "Composition rouge et bleue". Mixed media. c1940s. Signed lower right. Light cream wove paper. Composed with gouache, watercolor, and crayon. Very good condition. Provenance: Private collection, Shaker Heights, Ohio. Overall size: 8 1/2 x 12 7/16 in. (216 x 316 mm). Image size: 7 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (190 x 295 mm). A very nice example of Poliakoff's signature style. His paintings had remained purely academic until he discovered, during his stay in London from 1935 to 1937, the abstract art and luminous colors of the Egyptian sarcophagi. It was a little afterwards in Paris that he met Wassily Kandinsky, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, and Otto Freundlich. With these influences, Poliakoff quickly came to be considered as one of the most powerful painters of his generation. Image © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [27371-2-7500]