Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers.
mk72
1900
Sketch for the 1900 painting of the same title,now in the Treytakov Gallery
Oil on panel
18.7x23cm
Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
mk72
1900
Sketch for the 1900 painting of the same title,now in the Treytakov Gallery
Oil on panel
18.7x23cm
Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
Mikhail Vrubel Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers. Lilacs mk72
1900
Oil on cavas
160x177cm
Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow