Mermaids through the eyes of Russian artists (PICS)
Mysterious, alluring, insidious – and so beautiful! This is how artists depicted these mysterious inhabitants of the underwater world.
Ivan Kramskoy. ‘Mermaids’, 1871
Ilya Repin. ‘Sadko’, 1876
Konstantin Makovsky. ‘Mermaids’, 1879
Mikhail Vrubel. ‘Mermaid and Knight’, 1890-1891
Valentin Serov. ‘Mermaid’, 1896
Marc Chagall. ‘So I left the sea…’, 1945–1946
Marc Chagall. ‘Bay of Angels’, 1962
Vladimir Lyubarov. ‘Valera Treats the Mermaid with Kvass’, 2011
Ivan Lubennikov. ‘Mermaid under the rainbow’, 2020
