The exhibition features a tapestry ‘Tsar Saltan’, created according to a sketch by the artist Mikhail Vrubel.
Mikhail Vrubel proved himself not only as an outstanding painter and monumentalist, but also as an artist, in the spirit of the times interested in the most diverse types of art. Among his works are majolica sculpture, stove tiles, ceramics, sketches of scenery and costumes for performances, development of interiors.
Among the works by Vrubel presented in the exhibition, the tapestry ‘Tsar Saltan’ deserves special attention. This is the only lifetime work in the technique of hand weaving, created according to the artist’s sketch. Vrubel never created sketches specifically for this technique. The watercolor sketches of the paired panels “The Swan Princess” and “The Feast of Tsar Saltan”, on which the tapestry was made, are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery. They were probably intended for paintings.
It is interesting that in the Abramtsevo pottery workshop an identical majolica panel “Tsar Saltan” was created, made on about the same scale. The tapestry was created in 1903 in material by the Association of the Spaso-Setun carpet manufacture, one of the largest pre-revolutionary manufactories. The composition depicts a scene of a feast from the fairy tale of the same name by Alexander Pushkin: Tsar Saltan sits at the head of the table, surrounded by guests.
Mikhail Vrubel proved himself not only as an outstanding painter and monumentalist, but also as an artist, in the spirit of the times interested in the most diverse types of art. Among his works are majolica sculpture, stove tiles, ceramics, sketches of scenery and costumes for performances, development of interiors.
Among the works by Vrubel presented in the exhibition, the tapestry ‘Tsar Saltan’ deserves special attention. This is the only lifetime work in the technique of hand weaving, created according to the artist’s sketch. Vrubel never created sketches specifically for this technique. The watercolor sketches of the paired panels “The Swan Princess” and “The Feast of Tsar Saltan”, on which the tapestry was made, are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery. They were probably intended for paintings.
It is interesting that in the Abramtsevo pottery workshop an identical majolica panel “Tsar Saltan” was created, made on about the same scale. The tapestry was created in 1903 in material by the Association of the Spaso-Setun carpet manufacture, one of the largest pre-revolutionary manufactories. The composition depicts a scene of a feast from the fairy tale of the same name by Alexander Pushkin: Tsar Saltan sits at the head of the table, surrounded by guests.
