African still life / Аfrykanskyi natiurmort
ID:
4671
Updated:
07.02.2025
Name:
African still life / Аfrykanskyi natiurmort
Author:
Nina Gan
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1972
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, still life
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
55x81 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 880, КП – 3058
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Still life. In the center of the composition, on an oval tabletop covered with a red-brown cloth with yellow and red floral ornaments, there is a black statuette of a female figure in a thigh sling, supporting a rounded vessel on her head with her right hand. On the right is a black and brown animalistic statuette depicting a cloven-hoofed animal with long white horns and a cub. At the bottom right is a tray with orange and green fruits. On the ochre wall at the top right is an African black mask. On the back - On the top bar of the stretcher black graphite pencil inscription "Hahn N.S. 81x55" African Still Life ". The stretcher is deaf. In the lower left corner on the yellow ring is a paint layer fall 0.3 x 0.4 cm. On the left edge on the ochre background, a vertical crack 3 cm. To the right of the center of the composition (on the back of the depicted animal), there is a disturbance of the paint layer with fallout.
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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