Still life with mallows / Natiurmort z malvamy
ID:
4494
Updated:
04.02.2025
Name:
Still life with mallows / Natiurmort z malvamy
Author:
Alexander Chaly
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1976
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, Still-life
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
50x70 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1261, КП – 5023
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher
Description:
Still life. In the center of the composition on a light brown table surface in a brownish jug with a handle is a bouquet of mallows - long branches with whitish-pink, reddish, lilac flowers and light green buds and leaves. To the left of the pitcher, on the table, is a sprig of light pink mallow flowers; to the right, an embroidered towel cut with the right and lower edges of the cloth, hanging from the table. The background is grayish in the left and center, brownish in the lower left quarter, and whitish-blue drapery on the right, the lower edge of which lies on the table. In the lower left corner there is an author's inscription in brown paint: "O. Chaly 1976". Below in brown paint: "O.P. Chaly, born in 1914, Kherson, teacher. Still Life with Mallows, 1976, c., o., 70 x 50 cm.
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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