Blue peonies / Blakytni pivonii
ID:
4661
Updated:
07.02.2025
Name:
Blue peonies / Blakytni pivonii
Author:
Hryhorii Bonia
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1978
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, still life
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
75x61,5 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 875, КП – 3052
Location of special signs:
On the back on the canvas or on the stretcher
Description:
Still life. On a green and ochre background is a sprawling bouquet of light blue and purple spherical flowers in a yellow and red vase, cut off by the upper and right edges of the canvas. To the right and closer to the foreground is a dense bouquet of small blue flowers in a round, low dark red vase. In the upper left corner are two red buds. The background is ocher blue. Inscribed in yellow paint on the lower right "Gr. B.". On the back - On the top bar of the stretcher in black graphite pencil "Blue Peonies" 1978 (61.5 x 75) Bonya G.V. Kyiv. Bottom right on the corner of the stretcher DVSKhU. The stretcher is deaf.
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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