Serge Poliakoff
1900-1969
Born in Moscow, Russia. Fled the Russian revolution in 1917 and settled in Paris in 1923 where he met Kandinsky, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Otto Freundlich. He devoted only a brief period of his career to textiles design from 1945 to 1949. He produced 50 patterns for Jean Bauret to print as furnishing textiles. ( Collection Jean Bauret, Musée de l'impression sur Etoffes, Mulhouse, France) .Unfortunately it was a commercial flop!
