In 2009, the painting was removed by the authorities as part of a cleaning effort in order to have it repainted by Vrubel.[4][5]
Other works
In 2001, he and his wife, Viktoria Timofeyeva, created a large format calendar containing portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin called "The 12 moods of Putin".[6] Each page of the calendar portrayed a different image of Putin and was an unexpected hit with the Moscow population.[6][7]
Death
Vrubel died in Berlin from complications of COVID-19 on 14 August 2022, at the age of 62.[8]
^"Keep a Shadow of the Wall". The New York Times. 2 December 1990. pp. Section 4 page 18 of the New York edition. Retrieved 18 June 2009. In a lampoon of Socialist Realism, a Soviet artist, Dmitri Vrubel, depicts the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing East Germany's former party boss, Erich Honecker. A caption says "God help me to survive this deadly love affair."