Vortex / Vykhor
ID:
4350
Updated:
29.01.2025
Name:
Vortex / Vykhor
Author:
Mykola Skadovsky
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
XIX century
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
48x34 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 658, КП – 1199
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
In the foreground is a road going to the right deep into the composition. In the background, slightly to the right of the center, galloping horses. On the first horse is a rider in a brown-red shirt with a whip in his hand. On the left - dust swirling from under the horses' feet. In the dust near the road is a dark brown prayer house with a cross. Near the horizon line on the left is a blue surface of water. The sky is blue with dark gray and white clouds.
On the stretcher in the upper right corner is a sticker with the inscription: "The painting belongs to the brush of M.L Skadovskyi and in the catalogue it is listed under the name "Whirlwind" by N. Strohanova-Skadovskaya. 9/VII-1970 ("Картина принадлежит кисти Н.Л. Скадовского и по каталогу значится под названием "Вихрь" Н. Строганова-Скадовская. 9/VII-1970 г.").
State of preservation: The stretcher is sliding. In the right part, the swelling of the canvas. All over the surface of the image there is a fine-mesh craquelure, in the lower part – spider-web-like.
On the stretcher in the upper right corner is a sticker with the inscription: "The painting belongs to the brush of M.L Skadovskyi and in the catalogue it is listed under the name "Whirlwind" by N. Strohanova-Skadovskaya. 9/VII-1970 ("Картина принадлежит кисти Н.Л. Скадовского и по каталогу значится под названием "Вихрь" Н. Строганова-Скадовская. 9/VII-1970 г.").
State of preservation: The stretcher is sliding. In the right part, the swelling of the canvas. All over the surface of the image there is a fine-mesh craquelure, in the lower part – spider-web-like.
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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