A man's portrait / Cholovichyi portret
ID:
4331
Updated:
28.01.2025
Name:
A man's portrait / Cholovichyi portret
Author:
Unknown artist
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
early XIXth century
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
59x72 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 542, КП – 1074
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Half-length bust of a middle-aged man with tall, balding forehead, black hair, thick furrowed brows and deep-set dark eyes, sideburns and gray moustache, mouth tightly closed, 3/4 turn right. He has weathered red facial skin. Dressed in a black frock coat with large white lapels, a black shirt with a high collar. A corner of a white shirt can be seen near the neck. The background is dark gray. On the back – On the stretcher on the right side in black paint: "- x – 45", on the left side in white paint: "- i – 321". On the canvas, a pencil is barely legible: "property of V. N. Fakhmanov" ("власність В. Н. Фахманова"). Scientific restoration done at the National Research and Restoration Center of Ukraine (Kyiv city), in 2016, artist-restorer Daria Volodymyrivna Tsytovych.
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:
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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