High mountain valleys / Vysoki polonyny
ID:
4857
Updated:
10.02.2025
Name:
High mountain valleys / Vysoki polonyny
Author:
Volodymyr Zaitsev
Original name:
The country of the work of art:
Date:
1960
Type:
Graphics
Technique of implementation:
Graphics, landscape
Materials:
Paper, colour etching
Dimensions:
45x33,5 sm
Special labels, markings, signatures:
Г – 364, КП – 1362
Location of special signs:
On the back on paper
Description:
Mountain landscape with a high horizon line. In the foreground to the left is a flock of sheep, almost in the center is a small house with a pink roof and an attached pen. To the right is a road leading uphill, along which sheep are walking. In the background, on a black background, there are several houses with pink roofs. In the background and in the distance are gray and blue low mountains. The sky is yellow and blue, overcast. Below the image is a graphite pencil mark on the left: "Vysoki Polonyny", on the left: "V. Zaitsev, 60 years old". Lower right in graphite pencil: "V. Zaitsev "High meadows". Reg.No. 20506/v Inv.No. 9669/v ДХВУ".
Light warping of the sheet and yellowing. On the white fields traces of iron disease.
Light warping of the sheet and yellowing. On the white fields traces of iron disease.
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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