Portrait of the artist P.A. Nilus / Portret khudozhnyka Nilusa P.A.
ID:
4323
Updated:
28.01.2025
Name:
Portrait of the artist P.A. Nilus / Portret khudozhnyka Nilusa P.A.
Author:
Yevhen Bukovetskyi
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1905
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
71x96 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 533, КП – 1065
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
On a brown-green with a yellow background, there is a knee-length portrait of a seated man. Straight brown hair combed up. A wide face, narrow light eyes, a thin nose, a pointed red beard and moustache. The right hand bent at the elbow, lying on the knee, a burning papyrus. Dressed in a greenish-brown suit with a waistcoat, a white shirt with a blue tie. In the lower right corner, a signature in brown paint: "Bukovetskyi 1905" ("Буковецький 1905") From the back – On the stretcher in the upper left corner No. "106"; sticker on white paper, on the upper part of the frame is written in ink: "24/3 1902". Next to the sticker with seals one on top of the other, the upper one is not completely preserved. Inscription in faded ink: "Bukovetskyi. Portrait of the artist Nilus. Property of the artist" ("Буковицький. Портрет художника Нилуса. Власність автора"). Next to it in a circle with a pencil 3. The work is converted. Fabric folding. There is a puncture in the upper right corner, a scratch of 3 cm on the left.
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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