Early spring / Rannoiu vesnoiu
ID:
4479
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
Early spring / Rannoiu vesnoiu
Author:
Heorhii Kurnakov
Original name:
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Date:
1962
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
24,5x29 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1250, КП – 4934
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher
Description:
Spring landscape. In the foreground, in the middle and on the right, there is pale blue water with the reflection of trees. To the left is a winding ocher-brown shore, to the right is a flat, gray-brown shore with low trees. In the background, in the middle, there are green and brown boats. There are two women and a man in the boat. Behind them is a narrow horizontal strip of shore, a group of tall trees. In the background is a river and a distant greenish-gray bank. The sky is light blue, pink on the horizon. At the bottom left is the author's signature and date: "G. Kurnakov, 62". The cardboard backing is inscribed: "Collection of Pyotr Matveyevich Elistratov (Saransk)". Author's inscription "G.V. Kurnakov in the early spring of 1961. 23x29" (written in the author's own hand). Below is the inscription "Kurnakov G.V. (30.03.1887-20.10.1977) Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Cardboard warping. Horizontal cracks.
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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