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. An Allegory of the Nizhni-Novgorod Fair mk72
1895-96
Sketch for an unrealized panel intended for the All-Russia Exhibition of Art and Industry in Nizhni-Novgorod
