By the pond / Bilia stavka

ID: 4398
Updated: 03.02.2025
By the pond / Bilia stavka (Photo 256)
Name:
By the pond / Bilia stavka
Author:
Sergey Gerasimov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
XX century AD
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Paper, oil
Dimensions:
37,5x27 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 925, КП – 3175
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper or on a stretcher
Description:
Front composition. Summer motif. Most of the composition is occupied by the image of a pond with flat green banks overgrown with thick green trees. On the left is a figure of a woman with black hair, dressed in a long white dress, who moves along the pond and holds an open white umbrella in her raised left hand. The movement of the figure is to the right. In the depth of the composition on the left is the upper tier of the white belfry raised above the trees. From the back. Cardboard spacer. Author’s signature at the top in the center: "S.V. Gerasimov - Pond near the village of Peskovo with a portrait of his wife." ("С.В. Герасимов – Пруд около д. Песково с портретом жены.") - Signature of the author. - Lower right – "By the pond" ("У пруда"). In the center is a sticker, product label "Moskomissiontorga" ("Москомиссионторга") No. 977394 with a price of 450 rubbles. Below in black felt-tip pen: "S.V. Gerasimov (1885-1964). By the pond" ("С.В. Герасимов (1885-1964). У пруда."). Top left in graphite pencil - 250. Fully covered and closed. Significant distortion of the paper, numerous dot scree.
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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