Mikhail Vrubel mk72
1884
Watercolor on paper
19.8x10.5cm
Brodsky Memorial Museum,St.Petersburg
Female Model in an oriental Costume 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.
