Serge Poliakoff

Поляков, Сергей Георгиевич

Painter

Born Moscow, 8 January 1900

Died Paris, 12 October 1969

 

Poliakoff studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture until 1918 when he fled Russia over Constantinople, Sofia, Belgrade and Berlin to settle in Paris in 1923. There he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. Until he met Kandinsky and Sonia and Robert Delaunay, around 1935, he painted in a more academic style, before starting to paint in an abstract way. 

 

1921

 

1957

 

1959

 

1963

   

 

1964-65

     

 

1973

   

 

1976-77

 

 

1984

 

1986

 

1988

 

1997

 

2005