Mikhail Vrubel mk72
1905
Study
Watercolor and graphite on paper
22.8x18.4cm
Russian Museum,St.Petersburg
The head of john the Baptist 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.
