Girl Feeding Chickens

Technique: Porcelain, painting.
Size: Height 18 cm.

Size: height 18 cm, base diameter 9.5 cm. General minor wear and scratches. Nina Aleksandrovna Malysheva (1914-1983) The birthplace of one of the leading sculptors of the Dulyovo Porcelain Factory of the Soviet period was the city of Oryol, where Nina Aleksandrovna was born in 1914. Her creative nature and love of drawing began to show from her earliest childhood. Her teenage and subsequent years were spent in Moscow, where her parents moved in 1925. After seven-year school, the time came to acquire a profession. At the Factory Apprenticeship School, Malysheva mastered metal turning. Nevertheless, being a creative person, in 1933 she entered the Art School named after 1905, where she studied under such artist-teachers as S. I. Frolov, I. F. Rakhmanov, N. P. Krymov. A. A. Deineka and his works became the guiding light of artistic creativity for Malysheva. In the first years of her working life, Nina Aleksandrovna worked at the House of Artistic Education of Children, and for some time she worked as a school teacher. With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the life of our compatriots turned 180 degrees, and Nina Aleksandrovna was no exception. Together with part of the population, she was evacuated to the Kazakh city of Kustanay. At the same time, the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (MIPIDI) was in evacuation in the Uzbek city of Samarkand. Malysheva decided to enter this institution and sent her documents. Thus began the period of obtaining a higher professional education and the profession to which Nina Aleksandrovna devoted her whole life. During the student years that Malysheva spent in Central Asia, she became imbued with the spirit, culture and traditions of the peoples of those places, which was later reflected in some of the sculptor's works. When the institute returned from evacuation to Moscow in the autumn of 1943, Malysheva decided to transfer to the faculty of decorative sculpture, where she was taught sculpture by N. Zelinskaya and E. Belashova. Almost immediately after graduating from the institute in 1947, Nina Aleksandrovna began her working career at the Dulyovo Porcelain Factory. Over her years at the Dulyovo enterprise, Malysheva created many interesting and, in their own way, unique works of small-scale sculpture. These are the figurines “Manicure” (“Gossips”), “Telephone Conversation”, “Lost”, “Walk”, “Song of Friendship”, “It Has Become Our Tradition”. Works on the theme of dance and classical ballet can be singled out as a separate series: “Lezginka”, “Belarusian Dance”, “Dancing Uzbek Woman”, “Uzbek with a Tambourine”, “Dancing Tajiks”, “Young Ballerina”, “Russian Quadrille” and others. In her works, Nina Aleksandrovna paid particular attention to the details of the characters – faces, hairstyles, elements of clothing – thereby creating porcelain, often multi-figure “sketches from life”. N. A. Malysheva regularly took part in all-Union, regional, city and international exhibitions. Her works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, the Kuskovo State Museum of Ceramics, the Museum of the State Dulyovo Porcelain Factory, the Tver Regional Picture Gallery, the Vrubel Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts and the Luhansk Regional Art Museum. Author of the model: N. A. Malysheva. Figurine. Porcelain, painting. Dulyovo. 1955