Childhood sky / Nebo dytynstva
ID:
4522
Updated:
05.02.2025
Name:
Childhood sky / Nebo dytynstva
Author:
Valentina Bahgchevan
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1986
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, plot
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
110x100 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1284, КП – 5447
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
At the bottom of the composition on the left is a generational image of a woman and a girl standing. The woman's head is raised, her arms are crossed over her stomach. She is dressed in a brown dress with a neckline and long sleeves. A light yellow cloth is wrapped around the elbow of her right arm. The girl is wearing a dark brown cloth, her hair is braided. The figures are flattened, facial features are indeterminate. The figures are set against the background of an unrealistic, ghostly landscape of land and the vague outlines of a dense mass of either mountains or trees. To the right are three tall trees with spreading crowns. Near the trees is a silhouette of a figure (moving toward the viewer). Closer to the center is the silhouette of a figure moving away. A significant part of the work's area is occupied by the image of a red-ochre sky with bright yellow flashes. The color of the painting is in dark ocher tones. On the vertical crossbar of the frame is a sticker: "Bakhchevan Valentina Nikitichna 1948 Chisinau "Childhood Sky" 100 x 110 x ,m 1986". Inscribed in pencil: VHPO ZH-4096. In red pencil 68 89
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
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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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