Candle / Svichka
ID:
1740
Updated:
08.04.2025
Name:
Candle / Svichka
Author:
Alexey Fishchenko
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1993
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, abstraction
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
80x90 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1489, КП – 6417
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Abstract composition. Against the background of intersecting decorative planes - brown and blue in the center, yellow-pink and purple above, light yellow on the right and left - there is a generalized image of three burning candles (the central one is bright yellow). Around them are two curved figured bright red planes. Below is a horizontal yellow plane with colored white, blue, brown, red spots and stripes. At the bottom right is the author's sign in brown F. On the back is the author's inscription in the middle: Fischenko Oleksiy Fedorovych "Candle" p. o. 90x50.
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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