early 20C Palekh lacquer miniature box match holder master Blokhin rare antique ^Sale

Match box holder produced in Palekh and hand painted by highly acknowledged artist Blokhin Alexey Alexandrovich in 1920-30’ss in tradition of icon painting style. Comes from a private collection on estate.

Size app.: 4,5 cm (roughly 1.8 in) long, 3.4 cm (roughly 1.33 in) deep and 2,3 cm (roughly 0,9 in) high. Very good, age n usage wear. Please study high-res pictures for cosmetic condition! In person actual item may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 0.015 kg it is going to measure some 0.25 kg of volume packed for shipment.

Blokhin Alexey Alexandrovich (Born March 28, 1903 in Palekh. Hereditary icon painter, son of A. I. Blokhin. Member of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR since 1953. In 1911 - 1915 he studied at the educational workshops of the Committee for the Trusteeship of Russian Icon Painting. The teacher is I. M. Bakanov. In 1915-1917 he studied at the studio of A. P. Bolshakov in Moscow. From 1921 he lived in Moscow permanently. He died in 1969 and was buried in Moscow. He was engaged in monumental and theatrical scenery painting. Themes of the works: literature, history, portraits, motives of Golik's hunts and triplets. Participated in exhibitions since 1933. A.A. Blokhin's works are kept in museums: VMDPiNI (All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art), Kaluga Regional Art Museum, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, Irkutsk Regional Art Museum, All-Russian Museum of A.S. Pushkin " Moika 12 ", etc.