Still life with gladioli / Natiurmort z hladiolusamy
ID:
4239
Updated:
21.01.2025
Name:
Still life with gladioli / Natiurmort z hladiolusamy
Author:
Oleksii Shovkunenko
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1950
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, Still-life
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
97x128,8 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 831, КП – 2898
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
In the centre of the composition, on a brown polished table with a shaped lid, in an ochre-green vase with a socket, a conical grey-green vase and a spherical green vase, there are bouquets of red and pink gladioli, white asters, red, pink and orange majors. The background is light and dark grey. The signature of A. Shovk is in light grey at the bottom right. Light craquelure in the left part of the picture. The paint layer is crumbling and scuffed at the top on the right edge of the canvas. The work is wrapped.
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:
Links
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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