Serge Poliakoff, along with Jean Dubuffet, Pierre Soulages, Jean Fautrier and others, belongs among the main representatives of an artist circle which made history as the "Nouvelle École de Paris". However, the name is misleading, as "Nouvelle École de Paris" was not a school or stylistic tendency in a narrow sense, but rather the development of abstract painting in Paris after World War II, all the way into the early 1960s. Poliakoff worked out a very own form of abstract painting by putting color fields side by side. This atmospherically dense painting in a reduced coloring marks the peak of his artistic development, that was not only groundbreaking in terms of form, additionally, it also captured art’s zeitgeist. With unmeasurable creative powers Poliakoff enables us to discover abstract painting over and over: "Many people say there is nothing to see in abstract painting. If you ask me, I could live my life over and over again, and still wouldn`t be able to express everything I have seen." (Serge Poliakoff, transl. of quote after: Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, edition 31, issue 21, III 1995, p. 2).