Field of harvested corn Imeretia / Pole prybranoi kukurudzy Imeretiia
ID:
4469
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
Field of harvested corn Imeretia / Pole prybranoi kukurudzy Imeretiia
Author:
Max Birstein
Original name:
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Date:
1979
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
60x60 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1147, КП – 4104
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Mountain motif. In the foreground is an ochre ground surface with cone-shaped brown and ochre sheaves of corn. At the center of the sheaf is a male figure in right profile, wearing a white hat, gray shirt, and black pants. To the left, at the edge of the canvas, are tall green-brown trees with thin, flexible trunks. In the background, to the left of the center, there is a two-story white house with a gable roof. In the distance are mountains with gentle ochre, green, and dark purple slopes. The sky is dark blue. In the lower right corner, in black paint: M. Birshtein, 79. On the back - Above, in black paint - Birshtein M.A. Field of harvested corn. Imeretia, 60x60, 1979.
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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