Portrait of a veteran of the GPW Bibikov V.P. / Staryi partyzan
ID:
4687
Updated:
07.02.2025
Name:
Portrait of a veteran of the GPW Bibikov V.P. / Staryi partyzan
Author:
Ihor Reznyk
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1977
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, portrait
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
85x100 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 891, КП – 3069
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
In the interior, a generational head-turning image on the right shows an elderly man sitting in a chair, leaning on a table with his left hand, hugging a girl standing next to him with his right, dressed in a blue dress with a white collar and looking at an order on the central figure's jacket. Facial features: high forehead with bald patches, arched eyebrows, large gray-blue eyes, large nose, narrow lips, gray hair combed back. Clothing: white shirt, dark tie, black suit with government awards on the left side and an order on the right. To the left is an image of a white door cut off by the upper and left edges of the painting. The background is gray and pink. Bottom right in black paint by I. Reznyk. On the reverse side - At the top right on the canvas is an inscription in black: h-c I. Reznyk Kyiv 1977 "Portrait of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War B.P. Bybykov" (h. m. size 100x85). On the lower right corner of the stretcher is a passport of the DVSKhU. The stretcher is blind with a horizontal partition.
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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