Butenko Nikon Vasilyevich

Soviet Ukrainian painter. Member of the USSR Union of Artists. Born April 5, 1923 in the village. Alekseyevka of the Voronezh region. Member of the Great Patriotic War. He graduated from the KhSU (1947-53), where he studied with S. Besedin. He has been a member of KhO SHU since 1980. He took part in republican exhibitions since 1958. Solo exhibitions: Kharkov – 1955, 1975. Worked as an artist-decorator at the Kharkov Theater of Musical Comedy (1944-47), an artist in the ХХPK KhF USSR (1954-65, 1969). The main works: “Evening on the Dnieper” (1957-1958), “Early Spring” (1971), “By the Spring” (1975), “The Last Snow” (1978), “Blue Twilight” (1978), “Silence” ( 1979), “Spring Lace” (1979), “Big Water” (1980), “Spring” (1980), “Ice passed” (1981). He died on December 7, 1991 in Kharkov. Works of the painter are presented in public and private collections in Ukraine and abroad.

Photo: Butenko Nikon Vasilyevich “Ice went” 1981