Compostion Rouge, Jaune, Noir. Composition Red, Yellow, Black. 1953. by Serge Poliakoff, 1906-1969

Serge Poliakoff, 1906-1969
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Compostion Rouge, Jaune, Noir. Composition Red, Yellow, Black. 1953.

Original lithogrpah in three colours. 1953. Signed in ink (ball-point). Numbered in pencil from the edition of 100 (89/100).Issued in the series: Douze Lithographies de Peintres - Twelve Pianter's Lithographs. Printed at the studio of Pons, Paris 1953. Issued by the artist's
themselves 1954. Rare - Poliakoff's first colour lithograph.
Ref: Rivière - Poliakoff Les Estampes no 3.

Excellent impression with fresh strong unfaded colours. On pale cream stiff wove paper. Excellent original condition; trace of old mount hinges on the reverse only. Full small
margins, as issued. Sheet: 15 3/4 x 12 7/8ins. Image: 14 1/4 x 11 1/4ins. (363x287mm).

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Poliakoff?s very scarce first lithograph in colour.

Composition Rouge, Jaune et Noir (Red, Yellow and Black Composition) was Poliakoff?s earliest work in the medium of colour lithography. It was drawn at the studio of Pierre Pons, who was both an artist and ran a print studio, and it was issued by Poliakoff himself, along with a group of other painters who had made lithographs with Pons, in a folder entitled ?Douze Lithographies?.

Poliakoff was one of the central figures in the ?art informel? movement of abstract painting which came to the fore in Paris in the period immediately following the War. Poliakoff was Russian by birth but had lived in Paris since the 1920?s, after studying painting he met the Delaunays and Kandinsky at the end of the 1930?s, and had his first exhibition of abstract works in 1945. Over the next ten years his art developed into the highly colouristic freeform abstraction which was his mature style, with the interplay of form contour, surface and colour.

Almost immediately after his first exhibition Poliakoff became interested in the medium of lithography, but his first two prints in 1946 and 50 were in monochrome. The work above is his first colour print. Over the coming years colour printmaking was to become one the principal media of his whole art.