Serge Poliakoff

CASSOU, Jean. Serge Poliakoff. Amriswil: Bodensee-Verlag, 1963. Volume XIII of the trilingual series 'Artistes de Notre Temps', dedicated to protagonists of contemporary art. Illustrated monograph with numerous color and black-and-white reproductions of Poliakoff's celebrated abstract compositions, a Russian master naturalized as French and central figure of Parisian lyrical abstraction. Critical text by Jean Cassou, art historian and first director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. Fine printing executed by Zollikofer at St. Gallen. Copy in good general condition, representative of the refined Swiss editorial production of the 1960s in the field of art publications.