Sleep / Son

ID: 4675
Updated: 07.02.2025
Sleep / Son (Photo 256)
Name:
Sleep / Son
Author:
Yukhym Kerzhner
Original name:
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Date:
1980
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, genre composition
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
101x101 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 884, КП – 3063
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
Genre composition. In the foreground is a 3/4-turn full-length head-and-shoulders image of a young woman in a red short-sleeved blouse and black and yellow skirt, sitting on a child's bed, her left hand leaning on the bed and her right hand holding an open book. On the right, a boy in an orange and yellow shirt is sleeping on his side, facing the viewer. A blue-gray sheet is thrown over the back of the bed. There is an ochre-green carpet with red flowers on the wall. At the bottom right under the bed, on the plank floor, there is a children's cube with the letter "P" and a red toy car. The author's signature in yellow paint is at the bottom left: "Kerzhner E.". On the back - On the upper stretcher bar in graphite pencil: "Kerzhner Yukhym Oleksandrovych" 1948 Kyiv Kruglo-Universytet, 4 b. sq. 11 "Dream" on canvas 1980 101 x 101. The stretcher is sliding on four stakes with a horizontal bar. Slight sagging of the canvas.
Circumstances:
It was taken out of the Kherson Art Museum by representatives of the russian federation
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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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