Bozhentsi village / Selo Bozhentsy
ID:
4228
Updated:
21.01.2025
Name:
Bozhentsi village / Selo Bozhentsy
Author:
Anatoly Platonov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1974
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
70x65 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 818, КП – 2885
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Autumn rural landscape. From the centre of the composition to the depths and to the left along a yellow hill is a brown and red road with figures of people walking along it and a rider on a horse. In the foreground, to the left and right of the road, there are buildings with numerous extensions. In the background, against a background of blue and purple mountains, there is a forest with red, yellow and green tree crowns. In the lower right corner of the stretcher is a passport of the State House of Artists. On the upper part of the stretcher, 17910 is crossed out in red pencil. At the bottom of the stretcher in red pencil 1011. At the top of the stretcher in red pencil 1011. Above on the canvas: Platonov Anatolii Heorhiiovych b. 1927 ‘Bozhentsi village’ 70 x 65 cm x t. 1974 Kherson, Ushakova Street 51. Inscribed in the lower right corner in red oil paint: ‘A. Platonov’. Sagging of the canvas. The stretcher is blind. Loss of the base in the lower left corner, peeling of the paint layer with the threat of crumbling (17.07.87).
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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Archive links
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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