BUTORIN Alexander

22 октября 1901 (village of Palekh, Vladimir Guberniya) — 25 июня 1959 (village of Palekh of the Ivanovo region)

Painter-миниатюрист

From the family of hereditary painters; younger brother Д. Н. Буторина. Studied in educational workshops of the Committee of guardianship of Russian icon painting in Palekh (1910-е) Е. И. Стягова. From 1929 he worked in the Palekh Artel of ancient painting under the guidance of И. И. Голикова, Д. Н. Буторина.

Lived in Palekh. Served as the paintings on papier-маше (beads, boxes, plates, boxes) on literary, folkloric themes, themes of Soviet life and the revolutionary history: "Angler" (1929), "Three girls under the window" (1930), "On the barricades" (1931), "a Scene from the history of the Civil war" (1932), "Tachanka" (1935), "Distribution “Искры”" (1939), "the Partisans-мстители" (1947), "The tale of Tsar Saltan" (1949), "the snow maiden" (1955).

Participated in the illustration of the anniversary edition of "Tales" А. С. Пушкина (М.-Л., 1937; together with А. И. Ватагиным, А. А. Дыдыкиным).

From 1932 — participant of exhibitions ("Art of Palekh" in Moscow). Exhibited: "XV years of the red army" (1933), folk art (1937), all-Union art exhibitions (1939 — "industry of socialism"; 1947), "Pushkin in the works of folk artists of the RSFSR" (1949), "30 лет art of the Soviet Palekh" (1955), folk-прикладного and decorative art of the RSFSR (1958) in Moscow; Regional art exhibitions in Ivanovo (1936, 1940).

Works have been shown at the World exhibitions in Paris (1937) and new-Йорке (1939). A member of the Union of artists of the USSR (from 1934).

Work is represented in several Museum collections, among them — of the all-Russian Museum of decorative-прикладного and folk art, the Museum of А. С. Пушкина the State Palekh art Museum in Palekh, Ivanovo regional art Museum, Sergiev-Посадский state historical-художественный Museum-заповедник.

Sources:
1. Artists of the peoples of the USSR. Biobibliographic dictionary. M., 1972, vol. 2. S. 125.
2. palekh.narod.ru