A monument to the first sailors / Pamiatnyk pershym korabelam
ID:
4446
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
A monument to the first sailors / Pamiatnyk pershym korabelam
Author:
Grigory Sergeev
Original name:
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Date:
1977
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
70x50 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1126, КП – 3991
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Landscape. In the foreground is the red-brown surface of the river, illuminated by the rays of the rising sun; to the left, on the embankment, cut off by the left edge of the canvas, is a monument to the first shipwrights - a three-masted sailing ship on a high pedestal. In the background is the opposite bank of the river and in the centre is an island overgrown with shrubbery, a one-storey house, three cranes, a small boat on the right of the bank, and a peninsula and crane on the left. The sky is yellow-orange, blue in the upper part, with grey clouds in the upper right part. In the lower left part of the sky is a red-orange disc of the sun. In the lower right corner, in brown paint, is the author's signature and date: "G. Sergeev 1977." In the upper corners there is warping of the canvas, almost everywhere the paint layer is swollen. At the lower edge on the left - damage to the paint layer.
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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