mk72
1887
First version Sketch for an unrealized wall-painting in St.Vladimir's Cathedral,Kiev Watercolor and graphite on paper
43.4x59.2cm
Museum of Russian Art,Kiev
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 The Lamentation
