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Graphics
Vrubel Mikhail
Roses. Sketch
Circa 1886
Watercolour on paper
18.7 × 20.7 cm
Tretyakov Gallery
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31041
Vrubel Mikhail
Orchid
1886–1887
Watercolour, lead pencil on paper
24 × 15.8 cm
© Kyiv Picture Gallery National Museum, Ukraine
#3 2021 (72), Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31043
Vrubel Mikhail
Silence
1883
Watercolour on paper
27.6 × 24 cm
Russian Museum
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31049
Vrubel Mikhail
Still Life (Candlestick, Decanter and Glass)
Lead pencil on paper
24.9 × 17.7 cm
Russian Museum
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31051
Vrubel Mikhail
A Person Sleeping on a Bed
1904
Lead pencil on paper
11.2 × 17.7 cm
On the reverse: Pillow. Sketch
Russian Museum
#3 2021 (72), Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31053
Vrubel Mikhail
Bed
1904
Lead pencil on paper
23 х 33 cm
Russian Museum
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31055
Vrubel Mikhail
Tamara and the Demon. “Don’t weep child, don’t weep in vain.”
1890-1891
Illustration for the poem “Demon.”
Black watercolour, whitewash, scratching on paper mounted on cardboard
96 × 65 cm
Tretyakov Gallery
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31057
Vrubel Mikhail
Marcella Bedspread. (Bed with a Sleeping Person)
1904
From the “Insomnia” sketch series
Lead pencil on paper
18.5 × 26 cm
Russian Museum
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31059
Vrubel Mikhail
Throw on a Chair
1904
From the “Insomnia” sketch series
Lead pencil on paper
22 × 17.5 cm
Russian Museum
#3 2021 (72), Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31061
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for balalaika
1899
Watercolour, gouache, bronze paint on paper
28.4 × 43.8 × 5 cm
© Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve
#3 2021 (72)
31071
Vrubel Mikhail
Sea Princess. Portrait of Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel as Princess Volkhova
1898
Watercolour, whitewash on paper mounted on canvas
160.1 × 61.5 cm
Russian Museum
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31073
Vrubel Mikhail
The City of Ledenets
1900
Set design to the opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
Lead pencil, watercolour on cardboard
21.9 × 35.4 cm
© Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
#3 2021 (72)
31077
Vrubel Mikhail
Portrait of Prakhova
1884-1885
Lead pencil, gouache on paper mounted on cardboard
43 × 32.3 cm
Tretyakov Gallery
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31079
Vrubel Mikhail
Two Sea Princesses. Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel as Princess Volkhova in the opera “Sadko” by Rimsky-Korsakov
1898
Sketch
Watercolour, lead pencil on cardboard
33.5 × 27.7 cm
Russian Museum
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31081
Vrubel Mikhail
Tsar Saltan. Costume design for Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
First performance of the opera, conductor Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, director Mikhail Lentovsky. Opera Singers Society of the Russian Private Opera, Moscow. 1900
Lead pencil, watercolour, bronze paint on cardboard mounted on cardboard
19.4 × 9.6 cm
© Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
#3 2021 (72)
31085
Vrubel Mikhail
Tsar Saltan. Costume design for Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
First performance of the opera, conductor Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, director Mikhail Lentovsky. Opera Singers Society of the Russian Private Opera. Moscow, 1900
Lead pencil, watercolour, bronze paint on cardboard mounted on cardboard
19 × 6 cm
© Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
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31087
Vrubel Mikhail
Prince Guidon. Costume design (for Anton Sekar-Rozhansky). Opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”
First performance of the opera, conductor Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, director Mikhail Lentovsky. Opera Singers Society of the Russian Private Opera. Moscow, 1900
Lead pencil, watercolour, bronze paint on cardboard mounted on cardboard
19.4 × 9.6 cm
© Bakhrushin Theartre Museum, Moscow
#3 2021 (72)
31089
Vrubel Mikhail
Terem (Chamber). Set design to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Tsar’s Bride”
Opera Singers Society of the Russian Private Opera. 1899
Pencil, watercolour on paper
16.5 × 25 cm
© Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve
#3 2021 (72)
31091
Vrubel Mikhail
Street in Alexandrovskaya Sloboda. Set design to Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “The Tsar’s Bride”. Act II
First performance of the opera, director Vasily Shkafer, conductor Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. Opera Singers Society of the Russian Private Opera. Moscow, 1899
Lead pencil, watercolour, whitewash on cardboard
33 × 45.1 cm
© Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow
#3 2021 (72)
31093
Vrubel Mikhail
Lily. Decorative Motif
1895-1896
Watercolour, gouache, charcoal on paper
43.8 × 45.2 cm
Russian Museum
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31095
Vrubel Mikhail
Italy. Night in Naples
1891
Watercolour, whitewash, lead pencil on paper mounted on cardboard
57.5 × 70 cm
Tretyakov Gallery
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31097
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch of a flower on a dark-blue background
Early 1890s
Pencil, watercolour on paper
16 × 5.5 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
#3 2021 (72), Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31099
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile with a cornflower on a light blue background
Early 1890s
Sheet 18
Ink, watercolour on paper
8 × 8.6 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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31101
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile with a cornflower on a brown background
Early 1890s
Sheet 4
Ink, watercolour on paper
8.7 × 8.5 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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31103
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch of a tile with a flower
Early 1890s
Sheet 3. Pencil and watercolour on paper
10.2 × 10.2 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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31105
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile with images of yellow dandelions
Early 1890s
Sheet 34
Ink, watercolour on paper
5 × 5.3 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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31107
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile with a stylised image of a cornflower
Early 1890s
Sheet 13. Ink, watercolour on paper
8.5 × 8.5 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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31109
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketches of lion masks
About 1891
Pencil, watercolour on paper
14.5 × 8 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a stove tile (detail of the cornice)
Early 1890s
Sheet 33
Ink, watercolour on paper
5.5 × 4.5 cm. (The image is cut out along the outline and glued to a thick paper sheet 8.5 × 9 cm)
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
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31117
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch of a tile with four round flower buds in the corners
Early 1890s
Sheet 31
Ink, watercolour on paper
7.5 × 7 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
#3 2021 (72), Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31119
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile with an image of a peacock
Early 1890s
Pencil, watercolour on paper
10.5 × 10.8 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
#3 2021 (72)
31123
Vrubel Mikhail
Primavera
1897
Watercolour, charcoal and lead pencil on paper
96.4 × 50.9 cm
Russian Museum
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31159
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile decorated with a cornflower
Early 1890s
Sheet 23
Ink, watercolour on paper
4.8 × 5 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31161
Vrubel Mikhail
Sketch for a tile decorated with a cornflower
Early 1890s
Sheet 30
Pencil and watercolour on paper
4.9 × 5.1 cm
© Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts Museum
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31163
Vrubel Mikhail
Graveside Lamentation
1887
Sketch of unrealised murals for St. Volodymir’s Cathedral in Kyiv (4th version)
Watercolour, lead pencil on paper
18 × 29.8 cm
© Kyiv Art Gallery National Museum, Ukraine
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31169
Vrubel Mikhail
Self-Portrait
Late 1904 – early 1905
Charcoal, pencil on paper
25.3 × 17.4 cm
Russian Museum
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31171
Vrubel Mikhail
White Azalea
1886–1888
Watercolour, charcoal and lead pencil on paper
29 × 22 cm
© Kyiv Art Gallery National Museum, Ukraine. Previously kept in E. Bunge collection, Kyiv
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31173
Vrubel Mikhail
Flowers
1884
Pencil on paper
11.7 × 18.8 cm
© Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31175
Vrubel Mikhail
Flowers
Late 1904 – early 1905
Watercolour, lead pencil on paper
25.3 × 17.4 cm
Russian Museum
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31177
Vrubel Mikhail
Leaves
Sheet 3 from the “Album. 1884-1885”
Lead pencil on paper
9 × 13.2 cm
© Kyiv Art Gallery National Museum, Ukraine
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31179
Vrubel Mikhail
Male and Female Figures. Sketches
Sheet 37 from the “Album. 1884-1885”
Lead pencil on blue paper
13.2 × 9 cm
© Kyiv Art Gallery National Museum, Ukraine
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31181
Vrubel Mikhail
Demon (Seated)
Sketch for the eponymous painting (1890, Tretyakov Gallery)
Watercolour, whitewash, lead pencil on paper
17 × 27 cm
Tretyakov Gallery
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31183
Vrubel Mikhail
Red Azalea. Azalea Flower. Sketch
1886–1888
Watercolour, lead pencil on paper
24 × 15.8 cm
© Kyiv Art Gallery National Museum, Ukraine
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31185
Vrubel Mikhail
Fantastic Landscape
1890s
Sheet from a notepad
Watercolour, whitewash, lead pencil on paper
11.3 × 16.7 cm
Tretyakov Gallery
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31187
Vrubel Mikhail
Shell
1905
From the “Shells” sketch series. Late 1904– early 1905
Coloured chalks, lead and Italian pencils, charcoal, black pastel, sanguine on paper
42.4 × 34.2 cm (reverse)
Russian Museum
#3 2021 (72) Special edition "The Poetry of Metamorphosis. THE FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTS BY MIKHAIL VRUBEL"
31189