August / Serpen

ID: 4390
Updated: 03.02.2025
August / Serpen (Photo 256)
Name:
August / Serpen
Author:
Henrikh Nechyporenko
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1972
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, Subject composition
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
145x180 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 717, КП – 1261
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Multi-figure composition. In the foreground is an image of a young couple - a young man and a girl, who are sitting on the seat of an open car decorated with garlands of greenery. In the background is a truck with a group of people standing in the back: a collective farmer in a blue sweater, a harmonica player, a young woman in a bright yellow blouse and a flowered shawl, a mustachioed elderly man in an embroidered shirt, a sailor. Behind the car is a road that goes into the distance to the horizon. Wooden posts on the left, a bunch of trees on the right. On the lower right, the inscription in brown: "H. Nechyporenko 1972" ("Нечипоренко Г. 1972"). Slight sagging of the canvas, on the left, in the center, falling off of the paint layer (December 1982).
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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