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Poliakoff (1900 - 1969)
French painter
of Russian birth. He arrived in Paris in 1923 and attended several
of the Académies Libres. He moved to London in 1935 and
attended the Slade School of Fine Arts. His deep interest in
painting techniques led him to examine Egyptian sarcophagi in
the British Museum; their superimposition of colours, together
with the example of Paul Cézanne and that of the Italian
primitives in the Louvre, proved of great importance to him on
his return to France. Among 20th-century painters he admired
the purity and construction of space in the work of Juan Gris
and the spirit of Paul Klee’s art.
1900 Born in Moscow
1933 Académie Frochot Paris
1935 - 1937 Slade School of Art London, England
1947 Kandinsky Award
1956 Lissone Award
1965 Tokyo Biennal, International Award
1966 Menton Biennal, Grand Prize
1969 Died in Paris
Selected Exhibitions
1974 Retrospective, Fabre Museum Montpellier, France
1971 - 1972 Exposition Poliakoff, Tel-Aviv Museum Tel-Aviv, Israël
1969 Retrospective, Despiau-Wlerick Museum Mont-de-Marsan, France
1969 Galleria del Naviglio Venice, Italy
1968 Retrospective, Maison de la Culture de Caen Caen, France
1966 Retrospective, Saint-Gall Museum
1963 Retrospective, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, England
1962 Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
1961 Efteraars-Udstilligen, Palais Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Danemark
1958 International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh,
PA
1958 50 ans d'Art Moderne, Brussels, Belgium
1946 Centre des Recherches Paris, France
1945 Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
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