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Description: signed in Latin l.r. oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 46 by 56cm., 18¼ by 22¼in.

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Provenance: Sterling Strauser, Pennsylvania
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

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Exhibited: New Rochelle, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, The Russian Experiment: Master Works and Contemporary Works, September-October, 1990

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Published: David D. Burliuk, ed., Color and Rhyme, no. 37, 1958, p. 14, illustrated
Alla Rosenfeld, The Russian Experiment: Master Works and Contemporary Works, New York, 1990, p. 5, illustrated

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Notes: Burliuk, called "the father of Russian futurism," was one of the most active promoters of the Russian Avant-garde movement from 1907 until his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1918. He was a founding member of the Jack of Diamonds group and he also participated in the Union of Russian Artists, 1906-07; The Wanderers, 1907-08; Stephanos, 1908; The Golden Fleece, 1909; The Triangle, 1910; Union of Youth, 1911; the World of Art; and many other exhibitions.

In 1911, Burliuk contributed to the first exhibition of The Blue Rider, a German Expressionist group in Munich. In 1912, he co-signed the Russian Futurist manifesto, "A Slap in the Face of Russian Taste." He founded Hilea, a Futurist group and also illustrated a number of books by Futirist writers. Burliuk left the Soviet Union in 1918 via Siberia, went to Japan and Canada, and arrived in the United States in 1921. In this country, he published the journal Color and Rhyme with his life Marya Yelenevsky, who was also an artist.