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Based on Poliakoff’s diary entries, the exhibition looks at the last twenty years of his work as a preservation of the spiritual link between contemporary art and the Old Masters.
There are direct parallels between his paintings and the compositions of Giotto and Fra Angelico, which allowed Poliakoff to reflect on the nature of pictorial composition itself.

The dominant theme of the exhibition is the development of the liturgical aspect of the artist’s work, from 'Icône' (1949) to his unfinished 1969 work based on Andrei Rublev’s 'Trinity'. Poliakoff’s abstract art is revealed …