Urban motif / Miskyi motyv
ID:
4229
Updated:
28.03.2025
Name:
Urban motif / Miskyi motyv
Author:
Anatoly Platonov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1977
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
70x80 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 819, КП – 2886
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
City evening landscape. In the centre of the composition is a street with people walking along it with their backs to the viewer. Right: in the foreground, a brown tree and a one-storey house under a green roof with a green canopy over the front door, in the background, a tall brown and red building with a blue balcony. In the foreground on the left are two buildings of the same height: an ochre-grey building and a light building with a red roof. In the background, in the centre, is a building with a gable roof. The sky in the upper part is blue, gradually turning into light blue. Bottom right: The label of the Exhibition Directorate of the Union of Artists of the Ukrainian SSR. In the lower left corner in red oil paint: A. Platonov.
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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