Lucien Dulfan is an American conceptual artist.When working in former USSR he was considered Nonconformidst artist.
Born in Frunze, Kyrgystan, barely escaping Odessa massacre during German occupation of Odessa, Ukraine. He emigrated with his family to United States in 1990 and has since lived in Manhattan,New York.
Graduated from Odessa State Art Academy in 1963.Participated in 151 exhibitions,including 111 international shows and 50 solo exhibitions worldwide. Lucien Dulfan established his own art movement: Dulfanism;abstract/figurative art
" I was happy,youthfully joyful, and successful. I was awarded First Prize on the All-Union exhibition of art in Moscow. I had more than 50 international shows including bienalle in Paris and Germany. I was serene as Buddha under his three.Unexpectedly I got the news about my very close friend's death. He decided to abandon life. He was very educated man: Spoke all European languages, connoisseur of art,literature and philosophy. What pushed him to commit that? Probably loneness, disappointment, approaching of family emigration played the key role in that. His parents were professional revolutionaries,and were prisoners of tsar's jails and Stalin's GULAG. I was so shocked by this, that I experienced metamorphosis: from Romantism to the austere Expressionism. I used Caravagio painting " Arrest of Jesus Christ" or "Kiss of Judah"
I began obsessively interpret these painting since his death till now"

Selected collections of Lucien Dulfan:
Norton&Nancy Dodge Collection
Rutger's University Museum< New Jersey
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland
Museum of Art, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Kharkov Museum, Ukraine

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