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1883
Original sketch for the 1884 painting of the same title,now in the Russian Museum
Watercolor on paper
24.4x16.7cm
Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
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. china oil painting Mikhail Vrubel Hamlet and Operlia