Graphics

Vrubel Mikhail

Architectural motif (Byzantine columns)

1885

Lead pencil on paper

18.7 × 11.7 cm. Filigree paper

A page from the “Venice Album”

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Vrubel Mikhail

Ornament

1895-1896

Black watercolour, lead pencil on paper

12.3 × 12.3 cm (in the circle traced by the frame)

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

General View of Vrubel’s Studio in Venice

1885

Lead pencil on paper

8 × 14.4 cm

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At Vrubel’s Studio in Venice

1885

Lead pencil on paper

11.7 × 18.6 cm

A page from the “Venice Album”

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Vrubel Mikhail

Overcoat on a Chair

1904

Lead pencil on paper

23.2 × 33 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Table-Glass

1904

Lead pencil on paper

25.1 × 17.4 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Portrait of E.L. Prakhova (During Her Illness)

1885-1886

Lead pencil on paper

27.7 × 20.3 cm

Sheet from an album

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Vrubel Mikhail

Portrait of Savva Mamontov

1891-1892

Lead pencil on paper

18.6 × 11.5 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Antique Persian Carpet

1886

Watercolour, lead pencil on paper

12.6 × 9 cm

Sheet from an album

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Vrubel Mikhail

Model in Renaissance Surroundings

1883

Watercolour, whitewash, varnish on paper mounted on cardboard

36 × 24.8 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Portrait of a Man in Antique Costume

1886

Watercolour, whitewash, lead pencil, varnish on paper mounted on cardboard

27.7 × 27 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Indian ornamental decoration (to embroider on canvas)

1886

Watercolour, whitewash, lead pencil, varnish on plotting paper mounted on cardboard

21.8 × 31.3 cm (the sheet is of irregular configuration)

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ID: 31271

Vrubel Mikhail

Demon’s Head

1890-1891

Illustration for Mikhail Lermontov’s poem “Demon”

Black watercolour, whitewash on cardboard

23 × 36 cm (delineated image)

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Vrubel Mikhail

Bouquet of Lilacs

1904

Lead pencil on paper

27.6 × 17.7 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Bouquet of Lilacs

1904

Watercolour on cardboard

31.3 × 44.4 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

1887

Charcoal on paper mounted on cardboard

140.5 × 52.5 cm

Tretyakov Gallery

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Vrubel Mikhail

Floral ornament

Album with sketches. 1884-1889

Pencil on paper

Image: 5 × 12.3 cm; sheet: 12.5 × 8 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Floral ornament

Album with sketches. 1884-1889

Pencil on paper

Image: 12 × 8 cm; sheet: 12.5 × 8 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Flowers

1890s

Ornament sketches

Lead pencil on paper

45 × 56.6 cm

Tretyakov Gallery

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Vrubel Mikhail

Page with demonstrative stylisations

Late 19th - early 20th century

Pencil on paper

56.3 × 45.1 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Sketch for a tile with a cornflower on a blue background

Early 1890s

Sheet 17

Ink, watercolour on paper

9.5 × 9.1 cm

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Sketch of a tile with geometric patterns and stylised flower buds

Early 1890s

Sheet 28

Ink, watercolour on paper

7.5 × 7 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Sketch of a frieze of two tiles

Early 1890s

Sheet 9

Pencil and watercolour on paper

9.4 × 4.2 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Sketch of a vase with stylised flower shoots

Early 1890s

Sheet 5

Pencil on paper

4.7 × 6.5 cm (the image is cut out along the outline and glued to a thick paper sheet 8.5 × 9 cm)

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Sketch of a frieze of two tiles with flower patterns

Early 1890s

Sheet 14

Pencil, ink, watercolour on paper

11.5 × 5 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Dog Rose

1885–1886

Watercolour, whitewash, varnish on paper

24.5 × 16.4 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Sketch for a tile with an image of a daisy

Early 1890s

Sheet 19

Pencil and watercolour on paper

4 × 4.2 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Sketch of a figurative corner stove tile (“Boot”)

Early 1890s

Sheet 10

Ink, watercolour on paper

4.3 × 3.7 cm (the image is cut out along the outline and glued to a thick paper sheet 8.3 × 7.6 cm)

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Vrubel Mikhail

Bush under Snow

1903-1904

Charcoal and lead pencils, gouache and oil on primed plywood

18.8 × 26.2 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Field Flowers. Embroidery motif

1884

Watercolour, lead pencil, whitewash, varnish on paper

40.8 × 29.5 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Decorative motif with white waterlilies

1890s

Pen, ink, watercolour, whitewash on paper

21.5 × 32 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Design for a comb

Illustration taken from “Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel. Life and Work” by Stepan Yaremich (Moscow: Izdaniye I. Knebel, 1911, p. 125)

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Vrubel Mikhail

Periwinkle

1886-1888

Watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard

16.6 × 12.2 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Pink Azalea

1886-1888

Watercolour, lead pencil on paper

23.8 × 15.8 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Oriental Fairy Tale

1886

Watercolour, whitewash, lead pencil, pencil, varnish, collage on paper mounted on cardboard

Sheet: 16.4 × 24.5 cm; cardboard: 27.8 × 27 cm (the image spreads onto the cardboard)

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Vrubel Mikhail

Horseman Galloping. “The horse careered faster than a deer...”

Illustration for the poem “Demon.” 1890-1891

Black watercolour, whitewash on paper

23.5 × 33.5 cm

Tretyakov Gallery

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Vrubel Mikhail

Shell

1904-1905

Charcoal, watercolour, whitewash on paper

18.6 × 32.3 cm

Tretyakov Gallery

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Vrubel Mikhail

Moonlit Night

1901

Blue watercolour, lead pencil on paper

Image: 25.5 × 17.8 cm; sheet: 30 × 22.3 cm

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ID: 31333

Vrubel Mikhail

Campanulas

1904

From the “Campanulas” sketch series

Lead pencil on paper

33.3 × 19.8 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Shell

Late 1904 – early 1905

From the “Shells” sketch series

Black pastel, charcoal and lead pencil on paper

23.8 × 32.7 cm

Russian Museum

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Vrubel Mikhail

Bell-Flowers

1885-1887

Watercolour, lead pencil on paper

28.3 × 33.4 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Abstract composition

Early 20th century

Black watercolour, whitewash on paper mounted on cardboard

26.8 × 24.6 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

Church (St. Volodymir’s Cathedral in Kyiv)

Pencil on paper

32 × 23.5 cm

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Vrubel Mikhail

[Righteous Soul in the Hand of God]

A drawing on a torn-out piece of paper from a letter that Mikhail Vrubel sent to Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel. [After 1902]

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ID: 31347

Vrubel Mikhail

Campanulas

1904

From the “Campanulas” sketch series

Lead pencil on paper

26 × 16.3 cm

Russian Museum

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