Portrait of Alexander Scriabin

Category:
| Field: Light Music
| Author(s): V.D. Baranov-Rossiné
| Date:
| Holding Institution (Rights Holder): Archive of Dmitry Baranov-Rossiné (Paris)
| Related People and Organisations: V.D. Baranov-Rossiné, A.N. Scriabin, B.M. Galeev, I.L. Vanechkina

The portrait of Alexander Scriabin was made by Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné in the early 1900s and contains the composer’s autograph: “Alexander Scriabin. Musician of colours.” The portrait was discovered in the archive of the artist’s son Dmitry Baranoff-Rossiné in Paris and was first described by Bulat Galeev in the Kazan magazine (2000, No. 4). A copy of the portrait is kept in the Alexander Scriabin Memorial Museum (State Catalog Number: 25210980).


Links to Third-Party Publications:

Galeev B. M. Find in Paris (about the unknown meeting of V. Baranov-Rossin with Alexander Scriabin) // Kazan. 2000. No. 4. pp. 59–64.