David davidovich burliuk biography
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"Father of Russian Futurism", biting in his statements and sharp in manifestos, David Burliuk in life was a man calm, unpretentious and with a heightened fatherly instinct in relation to "throwing the classics from the fartyg of modernity." Moreover, a man who managed not to quarrel with his fellow futurists around him - and as a rule, they, as a rule, did not differ by a gentle disposition. At the same time, his surname was common, and Alexander Blok even complained: “Burliuks, whom I haven’t seen yet, scare me away. inom am afraid that there fryst vatten more rudeness here than anything else ... ”
David Burliuk was born in the family of an agronomist in the Kharkov province. He had two brothers and three sisters. All of them did not shy away from brushes, and Nikolay was also quite good as a poet. By the way, it was Nikolai who “presented”, if it is appropriate to say so, a distinctive external feature to David. In childhood, during a fight, Nikolai knocked out his brother's eyes. Subsequently
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David Davidovich BURLIUK
1882–1967, Ukraine/USA/Russia
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M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
DAVID DAVIDOVICH CHERSON BURLIUK
Russian / American 1882-1967
"WOMAN BATHING IN A STREAM"
(After Manet)
Mixed Media on Rough Panel
Signed BURLIUK Lower Right
Housed in a 22K giltwood custom Prendergast style frame
Museums: 29, includingSmithsonian American Art Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The Brooklyn Museum of Art;
Whitney Museum of AmericanArt; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Phillips Collection
Books: 40
PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist by Myron Lyzon King, Sr.
David Burliuk was such good friends with Myron Lyzon King, Sr, that he called him his 4th son.
Appraised in 1993 by Rod Hardy (Hardy & Halprern, Inc.)
Note:This painting is a re-interpretation of portion of Manet’s “Luncheon ”, with a female figure
in a nightdress bathing in a stream, that portion