N.Poliakoff (1899-1976)
 

"Ah , the French school ..." - Here you are you , French
N.Poliakoff (1899-1976) oil on canvas 80x100
In the photos you can see everything . The artist is not too expensive, but at the last picture is the thing that was sold to 03/31/2008 in France for 11,000 euros , plus interest and other things similar to this in our database.

With me , of course , you can come to terms on a much smaller amount !

Both things are not dated , but I think it's early, pre-war period - the work on the bug subframe visible well ...

And who is N.Poliakoff? Brother Serge Polyakov ?

I must say , the market index is the work of the artist in 2010 dipped by a quarter ... <! - ~ 11 ~ ->

biography of the artist.

Polyakov , Nikolai G. (1899 , Moscow - July 1, 1976 , Paris). Artist . Brother V. and SG Polyakov. From the gypsy musical dynasty Polyakov. In exile in France, lived in Paris. He studied painting at the Academy Andre Lhote . He took lessons from VI Shuhaeva . He painted portraits , landscapes , nudes . His most famous work of 1927, including " Portrait of a Woman ," " Nude " ( in the genre of Cubism ). Talk Salon d'Automne (1926, 1928), Salon of Independent ( 1926-1976 ). Held solo exhibitions in Paris (1928 , 1929 , 1931, 1943). In 1977 in the Salon of Independent held a memorial exhibition.

A good biography ! Thanks, had not read it. However , it is not thick albums of the Paris book bazaars , I remember ...

As far as I know , when they write good things about the work , it is not going to buy . Sorry , John Preston, judging from your posts, you are in life , too, a nice man, and seen all over - a true collector.

As for the " sagging index ," then , even prosyad it in 2 or more times, my price would easily withstood a sinking ...

Now look again at the picture. I think that if there was such a term " Gypsy schools " , these things could very well be the reference - a kind of daring debauchery !

Thanks for the compliments ... The fact that I collect 19th-century Western European paintings and earlier , so N.Polyakov not included in the zone of interests of the collective and my ... <! - ~ 12 ~ ->