Composition
Serge Poliakoff, Russian, 1906 - 1969
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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