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Late 1870s-early 1880s
Illustration for the novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Pen and ink with sepia on brown paper
39.5x33cm
Tretyakov Gallery,Moscow
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.
