Sergey Chekhonin

Who is Sergey Chekhonin?

Sergey Vasil'evich Tchehonine was a Russian graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator.

Together with Narbut and Vasili Mitrokhin, Chekhonin belongs to the second generation of the World of Art, the so-called artists who entered the union in the 1910s. Widely known as a graphics artist and creator of the so-called propaganda porcelain, he illustrated many Soviet publications, and even managed to invent a completely original way of multi-color printing on fabric. His works are in many museums of the USSR, and his artistic legacy is thoroughly diverse.