On the river / Na richtsi
ID:
4314
Updated:
24.01.2025
Name:
On the river / Na richtsi
Author:
Volodymyr Orlovsky
Original name:
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Date:
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas on cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
46x32 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 515, КП – 1046
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Summer landscape with a high horizon line. In the foreground diagonally to the left is an image of a narrow flat river hidden behind a clump of dark green low trees, an image in the background to the left. There is a reflection of the sky on dark green water with a light gray spot, a brown boat near the shore with a bunch of trees. Next to the boat is the figure of a man in a white shirt. On the opposite bank of the river are dark green sprawling trees. The sky is yellowish gray with lilac-pink clouds with orange reflections in the tops of the trees on the left. On the lower right is the inscription Orlovsky (Орловський) in gray paint. "1229" in printed letters on an old sticker (on the reverse) on the back. From the bottom, the stamp of the Kyiv Museum of Russian Art No. ж–1002. Work converted. Generally polluted. Precipitation at the right edge.
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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