On vacation / U vidpustsi
ID:
4716
Updated:
27.03.2025
Name:
On vacation / U vidpustsi
Author:
Vasil Arapov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1965
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, genre picture
Materials:
Canvas, oil
Dimensions:
147x113 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 576, КП – 1108
Location of special signs:
On the back on canvas or on a stretcher
Description:
In the center on a dark gray background is a generational image of a soldier and a woman in left profile. The woman is wearing a lilac shawl, a black jacket, a light dress (?), and is holding a jug. A man wearing a leotard, a pilot's cap, holding a basin and a broom. To the right, cut off by the edge of the canvas, is a child in a ¾ turn to the left, whose head is tied with a light shawl. Behind the child are willow branches.
Lower right in blue paint: Arapov 65.
In the upper left corner of the canvas in blue: "On vacation" 112 x 147 cm. h/m Arapov V.M. Leningrad. In black pencil on the back of the stretcher: d. Leningrad. In blue: VK 57334 43/67. In the lower left part, closer to the center, the paint layer is falling off, puncture and swelling of the canvas.
Lower right in blue paint: Arapov 65.
In the upper left corner of the canvas in blue: "On vacation" 112 x 147 cm. h/m Arapov V.M. Leningrad. In black pencil on the back of the stretcher: d. Leningrad. In blue: VK 57334 43/67. In the lower left part, closer to the center, the paint layer is falling off, puncture and swelling of the canvas.
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:
Links
Archive links
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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