OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING BY DAVID BURLIUK OF A WHIMSICAL SCENE OF A GIRL WITH A DOG AND GIANT SUNFLOWERS. PAINTING MEASURES 13"X16" SIGHT AND IS HOUSED IN A BLACK SHADOWBOX FRAME WITH GOLD TRIM. David Davidovich BURLJUK (1882-1967) Birth place: Kharkov, Russia Death place: Northampton, NY Addresses: Hampton Bays, L.I., NY Profession: Painter, lecturer, writer, educator Studied: A. Schs. in Kazan, Odessa, Munich, Paris & Moscow. Exhibited: Societe Anonyme, 1924; WMAA, 1926-46; J.B. Neumann Gal., 1927; Morton Gal., 1928; Dorothy Paris Gal., 1933-35; Cal. PLH, 1931; Philip Boyer Gal., 1935-39; PC, 1937; Corcoran Gal, 1939-47; ACA Gal., 1941-61; PAFA, 1943-46, 1949-50, 1958, 1966; Havana, Cuba, 1955; E. Raboff A. Gal., Los Angeles; S.Indp.A.; AIC Member: NIAL Work: MMA; WMAA; BM; BMFA; PC; Yale Univ.; PMA Comments: Russian modernist painter who came to the U.S. in 1922, via Siberia, Japan and the South Seas. Founder-Member: Der Blaue Reiter" and "Sturm" together with Kandinsky, F. Mark, 1910-14; with Mayakovsky and Kamiensky "Cubo-Futurism," 1911. Co-publisher (with Mary Burliuk), of the art magazine Color and Rhyme, 1930s. Author: special research on "Van Gogh in Arles," 1949-50. Pres., Burliuk Art Gal., Hampton Bays, NY (summers). Marlor gives place of death as Southampton, L.I., NY.

GOOD OVERALL CONDITION. SOILING TO BACK OF CANVAS. SOME CRACKELURE CONSISTENT WITH HEAVY PAINT LAYERING.