Mikhail Vroubel: The Artist of the Eves

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel was a painter whose art has been described as symbolist and proto-expressionist. He exerted a tremendous influence on russian avant-garde painters. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Art in St. Petersburg, Vrubel made mady trips to Italy and earned his living restoring medieval art treasures. this greatly influenced Vrubel's choice of subject-matter, although he was also heavily infuenced by literature of his own country which was then in full flower. The magnificient full-colour reproductions in this book of the Russian master, whose work derserves to be far better known in the West, will be a revelation to all who are unfamiliar with his work and a delight to enthusiast.