Serge Poliakoff's compositions may seem very simple at first sight, like puzzles of coloured shapes, but when you look at them closely, they reveal great richness. The painter works on the plasticity of forms. For example, in the painting "Composition 1950", he focuses on the middle of the canvas with small forms where white and yellow attract the eye and rejects around the larger figures with the sharp contours and less sharp tones.