Serge Poliakoff 

Serge Poliakoff, born the January 8th, 1900 in Moscow and died the October 12th, 1969 in Paris, was a French painter of Russian origin belonging to the new School of Paris.

Through Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna and Berlin Poliakoff settled in 1923 in Paris, where he continued to play in Russian cabarets. In 1929 he enrolled at the Académie de la Grand...

Serge Poliakoff, born the January 8th, 1900 in Moscow and died the October 12th, 1969 in Paris, was a French painter of Russian origin belonging to the new School of Paris.

Through Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna and Berlin Poliakoff settled in 1923 in Paris, where he continued to play in Russian cabarets. In 1929 he enrolled at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. His paintings remain academic until the discovery he made in London - where he stayed from 1935 to 1937 - of abstract art and brightness of the colors of the Egyptian sarcophagi. It binds shortly after with Kandinsky, Sonia Delaunay and Robert Delaunay, Otto Freundlich.

His painting releasing any representation Poliakoff quickly considered one of the most powerful painters of his generation.

In 2013, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris dedicated to the abstract painter a major retrospective of nearly 150 works created between 1946 and 1969. Entitled "Serge Poliakoff, the dream of forms, " begans the October 18th, 2013 and ended the February 23th, 2014. That same year, the Applicat-Prazan gallery exhibited some twenty works of Serge Poliakoff the 40th edition of FIAC.