Serge Poliakoff, Composition Etching number eight from the book "Parménide-Dialogue de Platon", published by La Rose des Vents/Paris in 1964, see catalogue raisonné Poliakoff/Schneider no. XXVI, here probably not intended for the book edition, non-representational arrangement of areas in red, pink and blue, colour aquatint etching on greenish laid paper, signed "Serge Poliakoff" in pencil below the image on the right and numbered "4/5" on the left, minimal brown staining outside the image, matted and framed behind glass, image dimensions approx. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Artist information: Серж Поляко́в, Russian painter and graphic artist (1900 Moscow to 1969 Paris), attended painting courses from 1914, 1920-23 fled Russia via Tbilisi, Constantinople (Istanbul), Sofia, Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin to Paris, where he studied painting intensively and earned his living as a musician, from 1929 studied at the Académie Frochot and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, 1935-37 lived in London and developed his abstract formal language, subsequently returned to Paris, took part in documenten II and III in Kassel, 1962 had his own room at the Venice Biennale, source: u. e.g. Wikipedia.