Valya Lipovska, a worker at the red flag factory / Valia Lypovska, robitnytsia fabryky "chervonoho prapora"

ID: 4430
Updated: 08.07.2025
Valya Lipovska, a worker at the red flag factory / Valia Lypovska, robitnytsia fabryky "chervonoho prapora" (Photo 256)
Name:
Valya Lipovska, a worker at the red flag factory / Valia Lypovska, robitnytsia fabryky "chervonoho prapora"
Author:
Samuel Nevelstein
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1946
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
55,5x67,5 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1110, КП – 3910
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Portrait. Almost explanatory image of a girl sitting in 3/4 of a turn to the left. Open forehead, brown eyes, dark, thick eyebrows, snub nose, plump lips, pointed chin, full cheeks. Dark hair, tied behind her ears, covers her neck. She is wearing a dark coat with a black shawl collar, a lilac blouse is visible in the neckline, and a red hat is tilted to the back of her head. The background is a shaky green-brown. At the top right in brown paint is the author's signature and date: "S. Nevelshtein. 46". On the back - At the top of the stretcher sticker: "Nevelshtein S.H. Worker of the factory "Red Flag" Valya Lipovska". On the bottom bar of the stretcher sticker: "Nevelshtein Samuel Grigorievich 1903 "Valya Lipovskaya, worker of the factory "Red Flag" h. m., 67.5 x 55.5, 1946 Leningrad". The upper edge of the canvas shows warping and cracking of the paint layer (traces of the canvas bending). A little lower and to the right of the centre, there are two cracks in the paint layer with the edges not peeling off.
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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