Construction of the mill / Bydivnytstvo stanu
ID:
4253
Updated:
22.01.2025
Name:
Construction of the mill / Bydivnytstvo stanu
Author:
Anatoly Platonov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1976
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
100x100 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 847, КП – 2959
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Industrial landscape. In the centre of the composition, almost the entire area of the canvas, there are dark red buildings against a dark blue sky. There are black and grey piles of different heights between the buildings. In the foreground, a full-length worker with his back to the viewer is standing with two hoses in his hands. In the upper left corner and lower right are spotlights. In the lower left corner - red oil paint: A. Platonov. On the back - In the lower left corner: "Passport of the work". On the stretcher at the top in black paste: "Platonov Anatoly Georgievich x.m. 100 cm x 90 cm b. 1927 year of creation 1976 "Construction of the mill". In the lower left quarter, loss of paint layer and ground due to a strong impact from the inside. In the lower third in the centre there is a longitudinal crack and craquelure.
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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