Friends / Druzi
ID:
4780
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
Friends / Druzi
Author:
Valery Panfilov
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
XX century AD
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, plot picture
Materials:
Paper, etching
Dimensions:
62x44 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 419, КП – 1418
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
A mountainous landscape with a low horizon line. In the foreground, to the left behind a boulder, there is a fir tree, the top of which is cut off by the edge of a sheet. Almost in the center of the composition are two riders on white and chestnut horses (the direction of movement is from left to right). The riders are a man in Hutsul clothes, playing a flute, depicted in the right profile, and a border guard in full face, his head turned slightly to the left. The sky is in light clouds.
Under the image in the lower left is a graphite pencil: "Friends", on the right: "Panfilov V.V.".
On the verso, right, in graphite pencil: "Panfilov V.V. Friends. Reg. 28955 inv. no. 14116.
General yellowing of the sheet. Traces of iron bacteria.
Under the image in the lower left is a graphite pencil: "Friends", on the right: "Panfilov V.V.".
On the verso, right, in graphite pencil: "Panfilov V.V. Friends. Reg. 28955 inv. no. 14116.
General yellowing of the sheet. Traces of iron bacteria.
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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