St Nicholas the Wonderworker / Mykola Chudotvorets
ID:
4459
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
St Nicholas the Wonderworker / Mykola Chudotvorets
Author:
Unknown artist
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
XIX century AD
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, iconography
Materials:
Board, levkas, tempera, silver
Dimensions:
25,8x30,6 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1137, КП – 4057
Location of special signs:
On the back of the board
Description:
Explanation. Head and figure in full-face view. Large open forehead with three horizontal arcuate folds, nose with a hump, small mouth, lush short beard. Around the head is a circular halo with a white and red outline, decorated with carved ornaments consisting of straight vertical lines and curls. He wears an omophorion, with a blue cutter in the felon, and a narrow sleeve with a golden handrail. The right hand is in a blessing gesture, and the left hand holds an open Gospel with text. Near the head of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is a small-scale image on clouds, almost full-length: on the left - Jesus Christ in 3/4 turn to the right, right hand in blessing gesture, left hand in open Gospel; on the right - Mother of God in 3/4 turn to the left, wearing red mafia. The icon's field, halos, and vestments are covered with gold leaf, over which are painted felony designs and patterns. The edges of the field are circled with green and red paint. General soiling. There is a vertical crack in the center (made by soil). The edges are scuffed, with loss of paint layer in places, and spots of blue paint.
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:
Links
Archive links
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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