David Burliuk, Russian, 1882 to 1967, ink on paper drawing depicting a female portrait. Signed lower right. Circa the 1940s. Matted. David Davidovich Burliuk was a poet, artist and publicist associated with the Futurist and Neo Primitivist movements. At the outbreak of World War I, the artist fled to Siberia then Japan before relocating to New York in 1922. Mid Century Portrait Drawings And Russian Art Collectibles.