May Leipzig / Travnevyi Leiptsyh
ID:
4783
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
May Leipzig / Travnevyi Leiptsyh
Author:
Ivan Botko
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1975
Type:
Painting
Technique of implementation:
Painting, landscape, plot
Materials:
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions:
33x47,5
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Ж – 1322, КП – 5779
Location of special signs:
On the back on cardboard or on a stretcher
Description:
In the foreground, a woman is driving a blue stroller along a gray roadway. She is wearing a white blouse and a gray skirt. On both sides of the road is green grass. In the background are tall buildings with gabled red roofs. Behind the red high-rise building, you can see the dome of a church on the left; on the right, between the houses, you can see a blue pyramidal spire. The sky is gray and pink. There are nail punctures in the corners and near the side edges, the corners are crumpled with the loss of the paint layer. At the bottom right, in the middle near the edges, there is a peeling of the paint layer. On the reverse side are remnants of glued paper.
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
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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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