Mikhail Vrubel 1890(1890)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 116.5 cm (45.9 in). Width: 213.8 cm (84.2 in).
cjr Demon 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.