Family at Tea

From Mattatuck Museum

David Davidovich Burliuk (created by)
Mattatuck Historical Soc (owned by)

1945 (Date manufactured/created)

oil

canvas, painting

Painting depicts a man and woman seated at table set for Russian tea. Room interior includes an easy chair with a cat, several paintings and mirror on wall. A young woman stands at an open doorway with a kitchen visible beyond. The women are wearing Russian costumes. Signed and dated lower right. Exhibition label on reverse. Many of Burliuk's paintings, executed long after he had settled in the USA, depict gnome-like figures in Russian / Ukrainian settings.

Gift of Mildred Thaler Cohen, 1999; Seymour R. Thaler and Mildred Thaler Cohen Collection

Accession/ID Number 99.25.7