Sep 17, 2020 - Sale 2542

Sale 2542 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 2,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DAVID BURLIUK
Portrait of Marussia Burliuk.

Color pastels, charcoal and crayon on cream wove paper, circa 1935-40. 350x254 mm; 13 7/8x10 inches. Signed in ink, verso.

Ex-collection private collection, New Jersey.

Burliuk (1882-1967) and Marussia married in Russia in the early 1910s, after she had been his model for several years, and before they immigrated to the United States in 1922.