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Item #1 - Painting, David Davidovich Burliuk

Artist: David Davidovich Burliuk,(Ukranian 1882 - 1967)
Object: painting
Medium: oil on canvas
Title: Female Head
Description: a female head, outlined in black with various blocks of color.
Signature: signed in lower right hand corner, 'Burliuk'
Date: 1950 - 1969
Dimensions: 16" hx 12" w
Condition: good
Biography: Internationally renowned as the 'father of Futurism; in his native Ukraine and in Russia, David Burliuk was a major contributor to the seminal period of modernism in the early decades of the 20th century.

Comparables:

1. Gene Shapiro Auctions, 4/23/09, lot 30, Bruliuk, oil on canvas, woman in red scarf, 17" h x 13" w, estimate $30,000 - $40,000, price realized $30,000.00.

Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 6/6/2009, lot 168, Bruliuk, oil on canvas, female head, signed 16' h x 12' w, estimate $16,000 - $20,000, price realized $20,238.00.

Fair Markte Value: $25,000.00