Fire on the seashore / Pozhezha na berezi moria
ID:
4145
Updated:
17.01.2025
Name:
Fire on the seashore / Pozhezha na berezi moria
Author:
Vasily Polenov
Original name:
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Date:
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas on cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
73,3x18,2 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж –505, КП - 1036
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Night landscape. In the foreground – a dark brown strip of the seashore. Behind it – a blue sea surface with yellow reflections of a fire burning on the opposite shore of the bay. The sky – blue-gray, on the right – violet-blue. In the lower right corner there is the author’s signature. On the back – On the top right in pencil – “Fire on the seashore” (“Пожар на взморье”) – On the bottom right – stamp of the KTMRY, Zh – 512 (”КТМРИ, Ж – 512”), on the frame on the bottom left on a paper sticker “435”. At the bottom in the center – a puncture in the canvas. The artwork is matted.
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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