Composition

Serge Poliakoff, Russian, 1906 - 1969

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1954

Oil on canvas

Overall: 39 5/8 × 32 3/8 in. (100.7 × 82.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe, Class of 1964H

P.959.137.5

Geography

Place Made: Russia, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: SERGE POLIAKOFF / 54. Label on reverse: No. 57516

Course History

SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1963.

Contemporary Art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 31-September 10, 1972.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.211, no.281.

Provenance

Evelyn Annenberg Friede Jaffe Hall (1911-2005) and William B. Jaffe (1904-1972), New York; given to present collection, 1959.

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