mk72
1891
Curtain design for Mamontov's Russian Private Opera in Moscow
Watercolor,graphite,and white on paper pasted on cardboard
57.5x70cm
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.