Dimensions: diameter: 70 cm
Signed and dated at the bottom: 'Maryan 75'
Provenance
private collection, France
Biography
A Polish painter and printmaker of Jewish descent. During the occupation, he and his family were imprisoned in Auschwitz, where he was the sole survivor. He lost a leg in an accident. In 1947, he moved to Palestine and attended the Bezalel Art Institute, where he studied printmaking. In 1950, he settled in Paris, where he studied in Fernand Léger’s studio at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1952, he held an exhibition at the Bretau Gallery, and beginning in 1956, he began working with the Galerie de France. In 1962, he moved to New York, where he exhibited his works at the Allan Frumkin Gallery. On December 15, 1976, he was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier)—a French state decoration.
Burstein’s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others.In 2021, one of Maryan’s most important retrospective exhibitions, titled “My Name is Maryan,” premiered at MoCA North Miami.
