Old mine / Stara kopalniа
ID:
4614
Updated:
06.02.2025
Name:
Old mine / Stara kopalniа
Author:
Mikola Berezhny
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1973
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, cityscape
Materials:
Paper, watercolour
Dimensions:
75x61 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 269, КП – 940
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
In the foreground, gray and purple houses are depicted in a chaotic order. In the background, to the left and right, there are purple and gray mountains descending toward the center. Along the high horizon line in the center are silhouettes of buildings. The sky is purple-blue with solid low clouds.
The image is signed in black ink in the lower right corner: N. Berezhna 73.
On the reverse, in the upper right corner, there is a sticker with the stamp "Board of the Mykolaiv Organization of the Ukrainian SSR No. 14".
The work is wrapped.
The image is signed in black ink in the lower right corner: N. Berezhna 73.
On the reverse, in the upper right corner, there is a sticker with the stamp "Board of the Mykolaiv Organization of the Ukrainian SSR No. 14".
The work is wrapped.
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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