In Smolny / V Smolnomu
ID:
4472
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
In Smolny / V Smolnomu
Author:
Volodymyr Yugai
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1986
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
151x108 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1226, КП – 4361
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher
Description:
In an office, in a chair covered with a white cover, there is a full-length bust of Lenin with an open book in his hands. He is dressed in a white shirt, a gray three-piece suit, and a dark red tie. To the right is a coffee table on different legs with newspapers and books on it. Behind the chair is a red and brown sofa. The wall is gray and yellow. On the back: top, right: "V. Yugai 1986 In Smolny. x. m. 108 x 153".
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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