Behind Ayu-Dag / Za Aiu-Dahom
ID:
4476
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
Behind Ayu-Dag / Za Aiu-Dahom
Author:
Viktor Babentsov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1979
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
95x70 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1229, КП – 4607
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher
Description:
Crimean landscape with a high horizon line. In the foreground, in a lowland, among yellowish-green trees, there are one- and two-story houses, to the right is a green mountain and the sea shore. In the background is the azure sea. The sky is grayish-blue. The color is brownish-terracotta-green-blue. On the reverse, upper left: "Kyiv-21, Iv. Marianenko, 14, apartment 28 "Kherson Art Museum named after A. Shovkunenko" as a gift from the author 19.09.88. Babentsov V.V.". Top right: "Babentsov Viktor Volodymyrovych 1921". In the middle: "Beyond Ayu-Dag c. m. 70x22 1979" Series Crimea ".
Condition: cardboard warping. Nail holes: 4 along the top edge, 2 on the left, 2 on the right, 1 on the bottom. Along the left and right edges are scuffs and paint peeling.
Condition: cardboard warping. Nail holes: 4 along the top edge, 2 on the left, 2 on the right, 1 on the bottom. Along the left and right edges are scuffs and paint peeling.
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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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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