Lot 64
  • 64

David Davidovich Burliuk

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • David Davidovich Burliuk
  • Mount Fuji
  • Signed in Cyrillic, dated 1922 and inscribed Fuji st. (lower left); bears exhibition labels (on the stretcher)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 16 1/2 by 21 in.
  • 42 by 53.5 cm
  • Painted in 1922.

Provenance

Purchased directly from the artist
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, David Burliuk: Years of Transition 1910-1931, 1978

Literature

Parrish Art Museum, David Burliuk: Years of Transition 1910-1931, Southampton, New York, 1978, no. 16

Condition

Oil on canvas. The surface is dirty and covered with a layer of slightly yellowed varnish. There is minor craquelure and the canvas is very slightly buckled in the lower left corner. Under UV no pigment appears to fluoresce but varnish prevents a conclusive analysis.
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