DAVID BURLIUK Surrealist Portrait of Arshile Gorky.
Oil on board, 1940s. 298x228 mm; 11 3/4x9 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
In 1941, David Burliuk (1882-1967) left Manhattan's East Village for Hampton Bays, Long Island. He soon became the ringleader of the Hampton Bays Group, which included artists Raphael and Moses Soyer, Milton Avery, and Arshile Gorky.
