Landscape / Peizazh

ID: 4264
Updated: 22.01.2025
Landscape / Peizazh (Photo 256)
Name:
Landscape / Peizazh
Author:
Witold Bialynicki-Birulia
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
XX century AD
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
80x67 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 976, КП – 3293
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Winter landscape with a high horizon line. In the foreground is a triangular section of snow-covered bank with a tree branched into several trunks in the centre. Parallel to the canvas is a river with ripples of steel water and the reflection of trees on the opposite bank. Near the bank, brown earth can be seen under the melting snow. In the background are grey outbuildings on the right and a brown barn on the left. In the background is a dark wall of trees moving away from the centre into the distance, with two peaks on the right rising up. The grey sky is covered with cumulus clouds. The author's signature in dark paint at the bottom right: V. Bialynytskyi-Byrulia. On the back, in the lower right corner in black paint: "V. Bialynytsky-Byrulia". General soiling. Significant craquelure. Right and left - two vertical creases. Along the lower edge - scuffs. The work is wrapped.
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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