BLOKHIN, Alexander I.

10 (22) December 1877 (village of Palekh, Vladimir Guberniya) — 5 апреля 1944 (village of Palekh of the Ivanovo region)

Painter-миниатюрист

From a family of painters. Studied at icon-painting workshop М. Н. Сафонова (1887-1893); painted icons. From 1924 he worked in the Palekh artel of ancient painting (up to 1928).

Lived in Palekh. Performed painting on papier-маше (boxes, cigarette cases, compacts) on literary subjects, performed the genre and battle compositions. The author works: "was Orphaned" (1926), "the Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1929), "the Tale of the fisherman and the fish" (1932), "Iron stream" (1934), "Yaroslavna's Lament" (1935), "Song of the merchant Kalashnikov" (1939), "Down the mother Volga", "Battle", "rest in the team on the site", "Festival", "Spinner", "wells", "Falconry" (all — 1930-е).

Participated in the decoration of the pavilion "Siberia" at VSHV (1939).

From 1932 — participant of exhibitions ("Art of Palekh" in Moscow). Exhibited: "XV years of the red army" (1933), exhibition of folk art (1937); the World's fairs in Paris (1937) and new-Йорке (1939).

he was Buried in Palekh. The father of the painter-миниатюриста Alexei Blokhin.

Work is represented in several Museum collections, among them — of the all-Russian Museum of decorative-прикладного and folk art, the State literary Museum, the Museum of А. С. Пушкина Museum of Palekh art, and others.

Sources:

1. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1970, vol. 1. S. 409.

2. palekh.narod.ru.