Portrait of a Moldovan woman in front of a mirror / Portret moldovanky bilia dzerkala

ID: 4250
Updated: 22.01.2025
Portrait of a Moldovan woman in front of a mirror / Portret moldovanky bilia dzerkala (Photo 256)
Name:
Portrait of a Moldovan woman in front of a mirror / Portret moldovanky bilia dzerkala
Author:
Oleksii Shovkunenko
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1936
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
200,7x200,7 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 844, КП – 2911
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Vertical composition. In the centre is a full-length image of a young woman, her torso in 3/4 turn to the right, her face in right profile. In her right hand, bent at chest level, she holds a yellow-red apple, her left hand is on a table covered with a dark red and blue tablecloth and a blue vase and a dish of fruit. She is dressed in a Moldovan national costume: a headdress made of colourful ribbons that go down her shoulders, orange and white necklaces, a black jacket with green trim, and a dark, wide skirt with a red stripe. There is a window on the front wall and a mirror on the right wall, cut off by the upper edge of the painting. The paint layer is cracked and creased on the right side of the canvas. The stretcher is sliding.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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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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