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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

David Burliuk

Head of a Sailor

Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection

David Burliuk

1882 - 1967


Head of a Sailor

signed BURLIUK. and bearing the date 1911. (lower left)

oil on canvas

45.8 by 38.4 cm. 18 by 15⅛ in.

Framed: 60 by 52 cm. 23⅝ by 20½ in.

Eric and Salome Estorick, United Kingdom (acquired from the artist in 1965)

Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1998, lot 136 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, Der Blaue Reiter, 1963, no. 38, illustrated

London, Grosvenor Gallery, David Burliuk, 1966, no. 9, n.p., illustrated on the cover

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, David Burliuk, 1966, no. 8, n.p., listed (dated 1911)

London, Grosvenor Gallery, 1967, no. 11

Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1973, no. 49

London, Fischer Fine Art Ltd., Tatlin's dream: Russian Suprematist and Constructivist Art 1910-1923, 1974, no. 14, p. 18, illustrated (dated circa 1918-20)

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Malerei und Photogaraphie, 1977, n.n.

London, Barbican Art Gallery, A Bitter Truth, 1995, no. 26

David Burliuk ed., Colour and Rhyme, London, 1966

Antonia del Guercio, Le avangardie Russe e Sovietiche, 1967, pl. XXXII, illustrated