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. Portrait of Nadezhda zabela-Vrubel.the Artist's wife,wearing an empire-styles summer dress made to his design mk72
1898
Oil on canvas
124x75.7cm
Treyakov Gallery,Moscow
