After figurative beginnings, Serge Poliakoff, who is regarded one of the most important protagonists of European Color Field Painting today, began to pursued an abstract path in the 1940s and eventually attained his characteristic style of clearly contoured, gently interlocking color fields around 1950. Our composition, developed from just two colors, is one of the particularly condensed creations by the artist whose painting is based on color, space, proportion and rhythm. The contours of the interlocking color fields are always slightly curved and thus carry a barely noticeable tension that is nevertheless decisive for the unique dynamics of the composition. It is usually the forms’ increasing density towards the center, together with the nuanced colors, that makes for the unique harmony of Poliakoff's painterly work. Our composition, however, is arranged in the opposite direction; the center, which appears almost empty, creates an exciting awareness of the absence of form and is surrounded by the color forms that stabilize it in a gently modulated red. With immeasurable creative power, Poliakoff's unique compositions allow us to experience the individual effect and interaction of the colors and thus the sheer unlimited emotional expressiveness of abstract painting. Each of Poliakoff's masterfully conceived compositions has its own unmistakable character, its very own emotions. [JS]