Flying Demon
1899
- oil on canvas. 138,5 x 430,5
- Ж-1846
Пост. в 1930 из ГТГ, Москва; ранее — ГМФ, Москва; собрание М. П. Рябушинского (с 1908), Москва; собрание А. А. Врубель, сестры художника, Санкт-Петербург-
Сведения о реставрации:
Minin Alexander (1992)
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Location in museum
The Benois Wing
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Room 66 - Period Late 19th century – Early 20th century
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Like all other works by Mikhail Vrubel, Flying Demon is a profoundly sincere and confessional painting. The young Nietzschean hero cannot do evil, yet is unable to escape the chains of loneliness, the «inner dungeon» of his own making. Proud, melancholy and disdainful, he soars in the lifeless heights. Flying Demon was an extremely topical work. Combining the fin-de-siècle atmosphere with a strong element of autobiography, it expressed the moods of many Russians of that time. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 240.