Sunny Day (sketch) / Soniachnyi Den (etud)
ID:
1684
Updated:
27.01.2025
Name:
Sunny Day (sketch) / Soniachnyi Den (etud)
Author:
Kiriak Kostandi
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1912
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
24,8x33 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 527, КП – 1059
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
In the center is an image of a tall girl sitting on a wooden bench with metal twisted legs. Head and figure from back in 3/4 turn right. Elbows rest on the back of the bench, a book is open in the right hand. She is dressed in a pink sweater and a long dark blue skirt. On the head is a green scarf. To the left is a brown tree trunk casting a lilac shadow on the yellow-pink ground. In the background, on a dark brown ground, against a light green background, there is a sprawling green tree with a cut edge of the canvas. Paper label at the top right: OTKT Vp #5 ("ОТКТ Вп №5"), "1912" in pencil on the left, blue pencil in the middle. Below again: "5". in ink in the middle; sketch from the painting "Sunny Day. Property of Maria Kostandi III M. Kost." ("Сонячний день. Власність Марії Костанді ІІІ М.Кост."). Ink: "RUM 20/2 ("РУМ 20/2"). On the lower right, a label with the seal: "Costandi No. 1. The girl on the bench. Etude for the painting ‘Sunny Day’. Property of Kostandi Maria, deed 20/3, estimate 5,000 rubbles" ("Костанді №1. Дівчина на лаві. Етюд до картини "Сонячний день". Власність Костанді Марії акт 20/3 оцінка 5000 р."). The work has been converted. On the lower and left edges of the precipitation of the paint layer. From the bottom in the center - a scratch - 2.5 cm. At the top, a crack - 6.3 cm.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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Details of theft
Year of the incident:
2022
Place of the incident:
The Oleksii Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum
Coordinates (Lat, Lon):
46.62979067231111, 32.609546919505945
Place of last known stay:
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Description of the incident location
It was opened on May 27, 1978, in the former City Hall building, an architectural monument of the early 20th century. As of 2022 (before the robbery), the museum's collection included more than 13 thousand works of art and was one of the most interesting museum collections in Ukraine. It includes works of Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. From October 31 to November 4, 2022, the Kherson Art Museum was looted by the russian occupiers, and more than 10,000 of its most valuable exhibits were stolen. The cargo was sent to Crimea, and the works (all or part of them) ended up in the Simferopol Central Museum of Tavrida. It is unknown whether everything is still there.
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