View of Prague from the hilltop / Vyd z kosohoru na Prahu
ID:
4406
Updated:
03.02.2025
Name:
View of Prague from the hilltop / Vyd z kosohoru na Prahu
Author:
Prokhazka Yaroslav
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1942
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
53,7x42 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 757, КП – 2565
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
In the foreground is a garden of thin trees in a white haze. To the left is a grey building. To the right is a small hill descending to the left. The hill and the ground are green. In the distance are greyish mountains. The sky in the upper left is blue, on the right and near the horizon line - blond, in the centre - two clouds. In the lower left corner is the author's signature and the date in black paint, 1942. On the verso, on the upper stretcher bar - the author's facsimile. On the right side of the graphite pencil: Prochazka, no. 253. View of Prague from the hill. No. under the act No. 24, Vr. Folio 5929. In the lower left corner of the stretcher in black ink: GMII inv. no. 4202.
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:
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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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