Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya A.V. (1892-1967), artist

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SHCHEKATIKHINA-POTOTSKAYA (nee Shchekatikhina) Alexandra Vasilievna (1892-1967, Leningrad), porcelain artist, painter, graphic artist. She lived in St. Petersburg from 1908 and studied at the Drawing School of Artists Encouragement Fund under Nikolay Roerich and Ivan Bilibin (1908-13). From 1915 she participated in exhibitions of the World of Art (watercolours on Russian fairy tales). In 1918-23 she worked as artist of the State Porcelain Factory (see Lomonosov Porcelain Factory). She created paintings on Russian fairy tales and took part in the series of "agitation of porcelain" (the tray "Long Live the International!" and the plate "The Commune"). She designed the sets for Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko produced for the People's House Theatre (1920). In 1923, she was invited to visit Egypt by Ivan Bilibin where she became his wife. From 1925 she lived in Paris, illustrated books and painted porcelain for Sevres Manufacturing. In 1936, she came back to Leningrad together with her husband and continued her work at the State Porcelain Factory. During the war she made statuettes and paintings on the Old Russian subjects (the group The Struggle of Prince Mstislav Udaloy with Rededya, vases Alexander Nevsky and Dmitry Donskoy). She developed sets for mass production.

Reference: Носкович В. С. Александра Васильевна Щекатихина-Потоцкая. Л., 1959.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Bilibin Ivan Yakovlevich
Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolay Andreevich
Roerich Nikolay Konstantinovich
Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya Alexandra Vasilievna
Носкович В. С. Александра Васильевна Щекатихина-Потоцкая. Л., 1959 World of Art, Association
Lomonosov Porcelain Factory