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1896
Sketch for a decorative panel for the All-Russia Exhibiton of Art and Industry in Nizhni-Novgorod
Watercolor,graphite,and white on gray cardboard
12.1x41.3cm
Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow
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 Mikula Selianinovich
